Sunday’s thunderstorms left several people stranded as roads in Cape Coral turned into temporary rivers, blocking vehicles and making travel nearly impossible.
“It has gotten worse throughout time,” said Alex Hernandez, a resident living near Tropicana Parkway.
Fox 4’s Bella Line spoke with people who live near Tropicana Parkway, an area where Line was stuck in on Sunday, and saw firsthand how quickly the water backed up. Watch here:
Weekend thunderstorms left residents stranded on the street
“This road in particular, I’ve been living here for the last 12 years and it hasn’t been that bad, but I would say in the last two rainy seasons already I have seen a significant amount of floods in this area,” said Hernandez.
“Not even when we had the hurricane, it didn’t happen like that, but it was really bad yesterday,” Myrna Rivera, a resident near Tropicana Parkway.
Fox 4Fox 4’s Certified Meteorologist Katie Walls says the area received 5 inches of rain in total this weekend.