DeSantis Seeks Federal Aid In Wake Of Fort Lauderdale Flooding

A person walks out of a flooded neighborhood on April 13 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis mentioned Saturday he's asking the Biden administration to declare Broward County a catastrophe space as a result of flooding.

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis mentioned Saturday that he'll ask the Biden administration to declare Broward County a catastrophe space as a result of flooding earlier this month after report rainfall.

If granted, the declaration would make Broward residents who incurred injury to their houses and different property eligible for a variety of loans and different help. Native governments would even be eligible.

Greater than 2 toes (0.6 meters) of rain fell in some components of the county April 12. The 1-in-a-1,000-year deluge left some components of the county with as much as 3 toes (0.9 meters) of water. About 1,000 houses had been severely broken, in line with the state.

The flooding additionally closed the airport for nearly two days. Gasoline deliveries to the port had been additionally slowed, inflicting lengthy traces on the pump.

Residents paddle and stroll alongside a flooded highway on April 13 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Over two toes of rain fell inflicting widespread flooding, closing the Fort Lauderdale airport and turning thoroughfares into rivers.

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The Republican governor is anticipated to quickly announce that he'll search his celebration’s nomination to problem President Joe Biden in subsequent 12 months’s election.

Whereas incessantly sniping at one another, the Democratic president and the governor have seen their administrations work collectively after disasters. That features final 12 months’s Hurricane Ian, which killed greater than 140 folks and left 1000's homeless, and the 2021 collapse of a apartment tower in Surfside, which killed 98.