A person walks out of a flooded Fort Lauderdale neighborhood on April 13. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is asking the Biden administration to declare Broward County a catastrophe space resulting from flooding earlier this month after file rainfall.

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A person walks out of a flooded Fort Lauderdale neighborhood on April 13. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is asking the Biden administration to declare Broward County a catastrophe space resulting from flooding earlier this month after file rainfall.

Marta Lavandier/AP

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis requested the Biden administration on Saturday to declare Broward County a catastrophe space resulting from flooding earlier this month after record rainfall.

If granted, the declaration would make Broward residents who incurred damage to their homes and different property eligible for a variety of loans and different help. Local governments would even be eligible.

More than 2 toes (0.6 meters) of rain fell in some components of the county April 12. The 1-in-a-1,000-year deluge left some components of the county with as much as 3 toes (0.9 meters) of water. About 1,000 properties had been severely broken, based on the state.

The flooding additionally closed the airport for nearly two days. Gas deliveries to the port had been additionally slowed, causing long lines at the pump.

The Republican governor is predicted to quickly announce that he’ll search his celebration’s nomination to problem President Joe Biden in subsequent 12 months’s election.

While continuously sniping at one another, the Democratic president and the governor have seen their administrations work collectively after disasters. That contains final 12 months’s Hurricane Ian, which killed greater than 140 individuals and left hundreds homeless, and the 2021 collapse of a condo tower in Surfside, which killed 98.