Harry Emilio Gottlieb reminds us with these photos how vulnerable we are to flooding here in South Florida and how fragile our relationship is to the environment. Harry took these in Key Biscayne this morning (this post has an arbitrary time for blog placement, I posted these at 1:25pm). It rained last night and the island homes are a few inches away from complete flooding. Scary isn't it?
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Not only scary but if is anything like south dade what a waste of tax payers money. Every year it floods public works spends months tearing up the roads and working on it and the following year is back to the same flooding.
would love readers to send us some south dade flooding photos from new sub-divisions...
Not surprising. Key Biscayne was swam land. Most of the Mackle homes were built for the war veterans, affordable housing. When the Cubans arrived, several families moved to Key Biscayne because it was the only affordable place - it was full of frogs! Although it is now an unaffordable island to most, it is still a swamp.
I've always been told that Key Biscayne is solid bedrock... although I don't have any info one way or the other to back that up... anyone know where one can find facts about whether a certain area is swamp/wetland?
I agree that flooding is an issue and not just in Key Biscayne. I live in the Hollywood area and when it rains badly, I have to drive through mini-lakes and some store parking lots are almost completely covered in water that takes days to dry up. They really need more drainage grates in the streets.
October 8th I did another post on Florida Geology.
Hollywood does seem to be the rain capital of South Florida. I wonder why?
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