{"id":2310,"date":"2025-10-14T12:33:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T12:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/2310\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T12:33:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T12:33:23","slug":"king-tides-paralyze-fort-lauderdale-neighborhood-victoria-park-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/2310\/","title":{"rendered":"King tides paralyze Fort Lauderdale neighborhood Victoria Park \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents in Fort Lauderdale\u2019s Victoria Park neighborhood woke up Tuesday to paralyzing floods mainly caused by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/monday-nights-harvest-moon-will-lead-to-seasonal-flooding-in-south-florida\/3702107\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">king tides<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s usually higher, and it will come to these yards right up to those stairs there,\u201d described Lynette Coleman, who grew up in Fort Lauderdale and told NBC6 the flooding problem is getting worse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Coleman, who lives in the Senior Gateway Terrace apartments, walked around Tuesday and pointed out the problematic areas near the intersection of\u00a0Northeast 7th Street\u00a0and 20th Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the most disturbing things I ever saw,\u201d Coleman said. \u201cYou can not see the difference between the river and the streets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The apartment buildings are nestled along the intercoastal, and the worst of the flooding was during high tide sometime after\u00a09 a.m.\u00a0King tides are projected for the next several days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been happening for years, but it\u2019s never been this bad,\u201d Coleman said, who added the city put in bigger pipes in order to get rid of the excess water, but not much has changed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s salt water, it destroys the foliage and destabilizes the ground,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Monica Besa, another resident who lives nearby, was walking around in her rain boots and told NBC6 she felt lucky as the floodwaters had not made it into her apartment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the price we pay for paradise,\u201d said Kathy Sutter, another long-time Fort Lauderdale resident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sutter now goes out of her way and parks her car on higher ground in case the waters keep rising.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What are king tides?<\/p>\n<p>King tides are naturally occurring, exceptionally high tides that happen a few times a year when the sun, moon and Earth align in a way that amplifies the gravitational pull on our oceans. <\/p>\n<p>These tides typically occur in the fall and early winter, coinciding with the closest point of the moon\u2019s orbit to Earth. <\/p>\n<p>While king tides are not caused by climate change, they highlight the growing challenges coastal communities face from sea level rise. <\/p>\n<p>The same tides that were once a minor inconvenience now regularly flood roads, overwhelm drainage systems, and impact homes and businesses along the coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents in Fort Lauderdale\u2019s Victoria Park neighborhood woke up Tuesday to paralyzing floods mainly caused by king tides.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2927,249,251,250],"class_list":["post-2310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-flooding","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310","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=2310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}