{"id":21848,"date":"2025-10-27T03:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T03:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/21848\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T03:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T03:50:12","slug":"live-updates-mount-dora-eustis-flash-flood-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/21848\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Mount Dora, Eustis flash flood emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">MOUNT DORA, Fla. &#8211; A flash flooding emergency has been issued for Lake County until 1 a.m. after several inches of rain have fallen over the last several hours, officials said. Watch live coverage in the video player above.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;This is a particularly dangerous situation. Seek higher ground now!&#8221; NWS Melbourne tweeted late Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">According to estimates from FOX 35 Storm Tracking Radar, more than 13 inches of rain have fallen in parts of Lake County, including Mount Dora, Eustis, and Tavares.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Here are live updates.<\/p>\n<p> 2 sinkholes reported in Lake County <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The Lake County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said two sinkholes have formed near East Crooked Lake Drive, near Country Club Drive in Eustis. Those roadways are closed.<\/p>\n<p>  School update: Eustis Elementary, Eustis Heights, Eustis Middle, Eustis High School  Titusville Fire Department <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The Titusville Fire Department said it has received several reports of people seeing water into their homes or cars being stranded by floodwaters.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;Please understand that calls are being triaged so that we handle life-threatening emergencies first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  Fire Department: &#8220;Please stay off the roads!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The Titusville Fire Department asked people to stay off the roadways due to the flash flooding from Sunday&#8217;s heavy rainfall and showers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  Rainfall totals: 8&#8243;-15&#8243; of rain has fallen in Lake County <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Between 8&#8243; and 15&#8243; have fallen across Lake County, including Eustis, Mount Dora, and Sorrento<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/slot0-29.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  Video: Vehicles stranded in flooded waters in Titusville  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/D6A361E157BE28B42E5397C78187D083.jpg\" alt=\"Vehicles submerged in water after Eustis flooding\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>   Mount Dora Boil Water Notice  Eustis Road Closures <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Roadways are closed in Eustis due to flash flooding due to Sunday&#8217;s showers and heavy rain.<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/weather\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/lake-county\/mount-dora\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mount Dora<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/lake-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lake County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOUNT DORA, Fla. &#8211; A flash flooding emergency has been issued for Lake County until 1 a.m. after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[47,2174,3685,115,139,141,140,628,221],"class_list":{"0":"post-21848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-fl","9":"tag-lake-county","10":"tag-mount-dora","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-orlando","13":"tag-orlando-headlines","14":"tag-orlando-news","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}