00:00I'm standing on Las Olas Boulevard, which normally would be impossible here in Broward County.
00:05It's one of the major thoroughfares in and out of Broward and over to the area beaches.
00:10But King Tides have changed all of that, and officials are calling this historic hurricane-like flooding.
00:17For four days in a row, folks have been immobilized with nuisance flooding, low-lying flooding, flood warnings, and they
00:25still have a few more days to go.
00:27Fort Lauderdale's chief of resiliency says this flooding is reaching parts of the city that has never reached it before.
00:34Water levels have been running about six inches higher than previous King Tides.
00:39The water-rivaled levels seen during Hurricanes Irene in 1999 and Hurricane Wilma in 2005.
00:46In fact, local residents that have lived here for over 50 years say the flooding this last few days has
00:52been worse.
00:53The highest was Wilma about 10 years ago, and that pushed it up into the same areas, not as far
01:00as it came today.
01:01Just do what I can do is seal everything up, use a sealer, seal up all the old things in
01:07the back as well as the garage, came over the top of them.
01:11I was using the worst-case scenarios, and it was even higher than what it was than I ever thought.
01:18This round of historic King Tides has swallowed streets, toppled seawalls, and closed major roads in and around parts of
01:25Fort Lauderdale.
01:26And we've been here eight years. This is the most we've ever seen.
01:29While they do say conditions will improve as we head towards the next several days and into the weekend,
01:34they're still expecting some of this localized flooding to last all the way to Saturday and Sunday.
01:40Reporting from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, I'm Leslie Hudson for AccuWeather.
