Residents still waded through knee-high water or used canoes and kayaks to navigate the streets Thursday in Fort Lauderdale's Edgewood neighbourhood, where window screen installer Dennis Vasquez towed some of his neighbour’s belongings on an inflatable mattress to a car on dry land. There were no immediate reports of injuries or deaths. Parts of South Florida began cleaning up Thursday after the unprecedented storm that trapped Valentine and other motorists dumped upward of 2 feet (60 centimetres) of rain in a matter of hours, caused widespread flooding, closed a key airport and turned thoroughfares into rivers. Climate Barometer newsletter: Sign up to keep your finger on the climate pulse.She eventually forced the door open and got to safety. I called 911, and they told me they couldn't help me." There's no way for me to get out of this car,"' Valentine said. "I called my parents like, ‘I'm going to die. She had just gotten a warning on her phone about flash flooding, and now it was all around her. The water was rising around her car, and Amanda Valentine thought she was going to die.
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