{"id":29817,"date":"2020-12-15T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapeltrailliving.com\/?p=29817"},"modified":"2021-04-15T18:51:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T22:51:10","slug":"tropical-storm-eta-floods-chapel-trail-pembroke-pines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chapeltrailliving.com\/tropical-storm-eta-floods-chapel-trail-pembroke-pines\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Eta floods Chapel Trail \/ Pembroke Pines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The National Weather Service reported nearly 18 inches of rainfall from Tropical Storm Eta in Pembroke Pines, a Broward County city of 180,000 on the edge of the Everglades. \u201cIn some areas, the water isn\u2019t pumping out as fast as it\u2019s coming in,\u201d Miami-Dade County Commissioner Jose \u201cPepe\u201d Diaz told the\u00a0<em>Orlando Sentinel<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TS Eta Flooding a \u201c100 Year Event\u201d\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3V6hs5MqqPw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div> <\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Many cities spent Monday trying to assess the damage and start cleanup efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Hollywood, low-lying areas were flooded and because the canals were at capacity, the pumps couldn\u2019t operate as effectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cities such as Pembroke Pines blocked off streets with barricades to prevent cars from entering flooded streets. Three parks were closed in Coral Springs because of flooding. And the Deerfield Beach pier was shut down, allowing workers to assess the damage it sustained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flooding in Oakland Park was made worse \u201cbecause cars would not stay off the street,\u201d said City Manager David Hebert. The cars created wakes that pushed water into people\u2019s homes. Other homes, especially on canals and lakes, had water damage because \u201cthat water has no place to go,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were isolated reports of toilets not flushing in Pembroke Pines \u2014 a fallout from the sewer system being infiltrated with excessive ground water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>According to the National Weather Service, between November 7th and 9th, 2020, Tropical Storm Eta dumped nearly 18 inches of rainfall in Pembroke Pines, a Broward County city of 180,000 on the edge of the Everglades.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Flooding was rampant through the streets of the Pembroke Isles gated community in Pembroke Pines, where residents said they were fortunate to have escaped any damage to their property. Children jumped and played in the water, which varied in depth from a few inches to as much as a foot and half in some areas Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLook, a new pool!\u201d Pablo Quintero, 11, called out to his father, Oscar, 36.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ana Franco of Southwest Ranches didn\u2019t go to bed on an island, but she woke up on one. Overnight, the rains flooded fields on all four sides of her single-family home, on the corner of Southwest 172nd Avenue and 68th Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAll night the water was rising and rising,\u201d she said. \u201cOne more hour of rain and it would have been in the house. I got lucky.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a Plantation neighborhood off Broward Boulevard, the water was so high Monday, that Tanya Clark\u2019s husband snapped photos of a woman in a bathing suit floating down the street in a rubber duck. Clark\u2019s sister, also in Plantation, had water bubbling up from the wood floor in her living room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pembroke Pines   Tropical Storm ETA Flood Presentation\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tUwpcjYdnrc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div> <\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the National Weather Service, between November 7th and 9th, 2020, Tropical Storm Eta dumped nearly 18 inches of rainfall in Pembroke Pines, a Broward County city of 180,000 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