Flash Flood in De Soto County, Florida

Heavy rainfall of six to ten inches caused widespread flooding of roads, homes, businesses, rivers and streams from the Bradenton-Sarasota metropolitan areas south to the Port Charlotte-Punta Gorda and Ft. Myers-Cape Coral metropolitan areas. Estimated flood damage was over one million dollars.Most of the flood damage was concentrated to homes that suffered water damage to rugs and vehicles stalled in water up to four feet deep across parts of West Central and Southwest Florida. A 36year old male drowned when the truck he drove hydroplaned, flipped over and slid into a flooded drainage canal along State Road 70, eleven miles east of Arcadia, in De Soto county at 2:55 pm est.