Crews rescue residents after Debby floods Sarasota

As neighbors worked together, so did first responders from Sarasota, North Port, Englewood and Port Charlotte coming together to help navigate the floodwaters.

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[ЗаяЛесная]

Thank you people for helping each otber.

[allegrabraun]

Service to others is a love your neighbors as yourself experience ...❤

[lynnec]

The vetting process for engineers has to be more serious. It's nature. How do the people protect their properties? When developers keep building without oversight.

[RadReelingFishing]

Wow, I watched this for like ten minutes seeing all of the devastation and you never mentioned what areas we were looking at that were flooded in Sarasota.

[Nellie-H]

And it wasn't even record rain! The Sarasota area doubled in population in the last 20 years. New construction sites everywhere! Thousands of new homes and condos and businesses. Blame our Leaders, blame our Politicians! Changing farmland into residential! For the first time every, Bradenton Raceway and Dragstrip was flooded! Why? Because of new construction sites all around and Land Clearing for future sites! Start the Lawsuits!

[JohnSmith-kx]

This saying " I have lived or been here for 20 plus years " and have never seen it this bad. this is becoming a common saying around the world and in the U.S. as extreme weather continues to disrupt & destroy our lives, My advice to anyone who has been through this type of situation is leave right away and find an area that you can rebuild and be safe. what do you think Thanks

[joyfullone]

I lived in Venice for 20 years and Sarasota County is a wonderful place to live in. It’s good to see everyone helping each other! 💕💕💕

[johnmusser]

Wait till your next homeowners renewal

[buffaloman]

Sarasota county commissioners allow developments anywhere..making the flooding worse..they dont care about anything but $ from the developers

[suz-sunshine]

Prayers for all! I am a little south of Sarasota and it just started pouring again.! 😢

[JohnSmith-kx]

My advice to all in Florida if you can not afford it then you need to leave, because if you do not, there will come a time (after your have spent all your saving) when you will have no choice but to leave. So leave now while you still can.

[WFPBFORLIFE]

How bad will it get before people learn that Florida is below water

[MaryMueller-yx]

Whooo...Bahia Vista right around the corner where my family ( Vickers) grew up since 1952.
Prayer for everyone there & special hugs for my Nephew &/Wife & all their beautiful Gran kids.
I can remember getting off the school bus on Loma Linda & the water would come up to our knees.👀🙃😆💕

[RedMartin]

Ya know you need more people and concrete in Florida. Stupid leader’s. It’ll be like California in 10 years unlivable because it’s too expensive.

[jeanniestegner]

Wonder how the HOA manages their emotions during times like this?

[janetprice]

Still raining and windy in NE Florida since last night. Phooey on Debby! Go Away!

[chrissignal]

If car insurance pays for flood without separate flood insurance than it's bs that home insurance bails.

[lizcorredor]

My goodness this is why I live in Miami thank God it wasn't a category 5 can you imagine KeepSafe and rescue any dogs and cats you can

[annl]

My heart hurts watching this. I'm 5 miles from there but left to NY the day before rain started. My development did not get flooded..We survived every hurricane with no flooding, just wind damage.The cause of this is too much building by greedy developers, and greedy politicians. Desantis has to stop the over buildiing. I wish I was there so i can help some people. It's so sad. Temps are in the 90s but feel like 104⁰ Imagine having no where to go.. Pray for them and help when you can. 🙏🙏🙏🙏😢

[lizcorredor]

They really need to fix the drainage you should write to DeSantis