'Our freezer...it's floating': Sarasota residents escape flooded home

In Sarasota, around 500 people were rescued from flooded homes and taken to higher ground Monday, according to police.

[buffaloman]

New developments are destroying wetlands that used to be able to absorb the water

[buffaloman]

Sarasota county commissioners allow developments everywhere..even wetlands that would have helped run off from the endless new developments

[rickt]

Unbelievable. I hope they don't get screwed by the insurance companies my bet is they will.

[younggeezer]

Stuff getting built up over the years screwed up all the drainage. Poor design

[andrewforsythe]

Some hurricanes are mainly rain events, some are mainly wind events. Obviously this was a severe rain event. Slow moving forward speed with tons of rain. Experienced this in the Bahamas many times. Hope everyone recovers soon.

[Sonofawildanimal]

THINGS ARE CHANGING IN FLORIDA

what once were minor effects of storms have turned into major problems

[MarisaHannanson]

i'm in this neighborhood. there is no way in or out of it unless you kayak because the water is too disgusting to walk in and cars cannot drive in it. no houses have flooded but there has been no improvement. everyone's just waiting for the water levels to decrease.

[clearseriously]

No one is talking about the new neighborhood that is being built faster than the old drains can handle bet that local leaders of that area homes are dry and pockets fat.

[SheilaMore-lv]

This is horrible. This is so sad I pray for them. I hope they all get some help.😪😪😪

[katbow]

Mold must be an awful problem for everybody when the water recedes...weather is changing, you can debate why it is happening, but you can not deny it is happening. 😢

[shireenis]

Devastating and unimaginable loss and heartbreak.

[sharongoodsell]

In Australia the last few years massive change in the rain pattern

[jay]

43 years the lady said so it eventually catches up with you in FL but she may be the lucky ones as have read of it happening to folks twice in 8 yrs

[amyhartman]

That there 1:24 looks like it is mixed with sewer water, I would not be walking through that looking for things to salvage until it recedes and I definitely would not eat anything that would have been in that freezer he said was floating at the other end.

[elizabethlewis]

You should realize raw sewage is probably mixed in that water

[richardmesser]

Same storm caused flooding in NY. and Quebec, was not just a Sarasota problem.

[SheilaMore-lv]

Oh my gosh it’s poor people. My heart goes out to them. Prayers for them. This is sad terrible.😪💕

[mll]

Horrible. When Floridians are shocked by a hurricane’s impact, you know things are turning freaky bad.

[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!

[thetruth]

‘ Don’t tread on me’ to tread water state 😂😂😂