{"id":22107,"date":"2025-10-27T11:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T11:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/22107\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T11:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T11:53:12","slug":"heavy-rain-leads-to-severe-flooding-road-washouts-in-central-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/22107\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rain leads to severe flooding, road washouts in Central Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Crews are assessing the damage left behind after heavy rain devastated parts of Lake County on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The city of Eustis was hit by a severe rainstorm on Sunday evening, receiving an estimated 14 to 17 inches of rain in just five hours, causing significant flooding and damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The north side of Eustis was heavily affected, with dozens of evacuations taking place throughout the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Roads were washed out, including Hazzard Street and Prescott.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mount Dora\u2019s Donnelly Street was reported to be gone due to the flooding, along with a number of cars that were flooded out by the storm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Firefighters warned residents to stay home as roads, both big and small, were shut down due to the flooding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">City leaders planned to survey the damage throughout the day on Monday, as some roads were being repaired overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Channel 9 has crews covering the flood damage around Central Florida and will provide updates on Eyewitness News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crews are assessing the damage left behind after heavy rain devastated parts of Lake County on Sunday. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17253,17252,28,30,29,1161,17254,2174,17255],"class_list":["post-22107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-city-of-eustis","tag-flood-damage","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-heavy-rain","tag-inches-of-rain","tag-lake-county","tag-severe-rainstorm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22107","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=22107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}