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In Fort Lauderdale, the airport there was closed due to the very heavy flooding and high wind, which was caused by around a foot of rain caused by the storm. The closing of the airports caused major delays in Christmas travel. In Georgia, high winds downed trees and power lines, which left thousands of customers without power.
Dean J. Trantalis (born October 14, 1953) is an American politician and mayor of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Before his election as mayor, Trantalis served as a city commissioner for Fort Lauderdale from 2009 to 2017. [1]
Miami International Airport and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport led the nation with the most flights canceled or delayed Wednesday, with more than 1,200 disruptions. The air travel ...
The winds blew down a large radio-transmission tower in Fort Lauderdale. Yet while Fort Lauderdale suffered the majority of losses, this was because the strongest winds affected smaller communities to the north. Damage at Deerfield Beach. Significant coastal flooding and beach erosion affected the county.
At the Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, sustained winds reached 70 mph (110 km/h) and gusts peaked at 99 mph (159 km/h). [1] More than 862,800 Florida Power & Light customers lost electricity. [11] Wilma was the most damaging storm in Broward County since Hurricane King in 1950. Much of the damage was ...
Main atrium. On December 16, 1960, the jet age arrived in Cincinnati when a Delta Air Lines Convair 880 from Miami completed the first scheduled jet flight. The airport needed to expand and build more modern terminals and other facilities; the original Terminal A was expanded and renovated.
Hurricane Andrew was a compact, but very powerful and destructive Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that struck The Bahamas, Florida, and Louisiana in August 1992. It is the most destructive hurricane to ever hit Florida in terms of structures damaged or destroyed, and remained the costliest in financial terms until Hurricane Irma surpassed it 25 years later.