Florida residents demand answers after 4 inches of rain flood homes, cars, and streets

After heavy rain hit Indiantown, Florida, some residents said their streets looked more like swimming pools than roads. Floodwater spread across neighborhoods, submerging roadways, entering homes and cars, and leaving some people to bail out vehicles by hand.

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In Booker Park, CBS12 reported the damage also raised a bigger question: how this could still happen after millions had already been spent on drainage upgrades.

Cell phone footage showed Booker Park neighborhoods sitting in inches of standing water as residents used kitchen pots to empty their cars, as the network’s video report showed.

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