FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP) — Certainly one of Florida’s busiest airports introduced plans to reopen Friday morning, two days after an unprecedented deluge left planes and vacationers stranded and turned Fort Lauderdale’s streets into rivers.
Officers at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Worldwide Airport accomplished closing inspections after dawn Friday and mentioned in a tweet that operations would resume at 9 a.m.
“Vacationers are suggested to verify with their airways for up to date flight instances BEFORE coming to the airport. Thanks in your persistence as we work to revive regular operations,” the tweet mentioned.
The airport shut down Wednesday night as a storm dumped greater than 2 toes (60 centimeters) of rain.
“Nature has been unkind to us,” Broward County Mayor Lamar Fisher mentioned throughout a information convention Thursday afternoon on the airport.
A flood warning was expiring, however the Nationwide Climate Service warned motorists that water-covered roads may nonetheless be a hazard.
All throughout Fort Lauderdale, residents and enterprise house owners cleaned up. Whereas it began raining on Monday in South Florida, a lot of the water fell Wednesday, and the Fort Lauderdale space noticed report rainfall quantities in a matter of hours, starting from 15 inches (38 centimeters) to 26 inches (66 centimeters).
Southwest canceled about 50 departures by means of Friday morning, a spokesperson mentioned. The airline is letting clients rebook on flights to and from Miami and Palm Seashore at no extra cost, she mentioned.
Frontier Airways moved two flights from Fort Lauderdale to Miami however canceled about 15 different spherical journeys, a spokesperson mentioned. Allegiant Air additionally canceled some flights and rerouted others to the Tampa, Orlando and Punta Gorda areas.