Oakland Park Floods, Davie Cleans Up After Tornado

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DAVIE (CBSMiami) - A sloppy couple days of wet weather have left some parts of Oakland Park underwater.

Thursday, the road in front of Northeast High School was closed due to flooding, but some drivers decided to give it a go.

"That was terrible," said "Taylor" who decided to risk it. "I should have listened to the sign that said 'Don't come through'."

At the Publix supermarket on Commercial Boulevard and Dixie Highway the parking lot was flooded.

"I just came to Publix," said Jean Moelius.  "It rained very hard this morning.  I guess this is what happened.  They didn't have any drainage, and this is what happened."

The store put up signs warning shoppers to be careful of parking blocks below the water. Some shoppers ended driving over the signs.

In Davie, tree trimmers were out early in a couple of neighborhoods after Wednesday evening's storms downed several trees.

A homeowner's surveillance cameras captures a tornado in Davie tossing lawn furniture and a barbecue pit inside a swimming pool.

In the Ivanhoe community they used chain saws on a massive tree which uprooted a few feet away from Bob Wolinsky's home.

"The storms were coming through but I was looking out my back window I heard the wind coming.  This sounded like Hurricane Wilma.  I came out to the front because I knew how big the tree was," said Wolinsky.

Workers from the Town of Davie stepped in Wednesday night to help clear what they could. Wolinsky said reality set in when he started making making calls to see how much it was going to be to have the tree removed.

"I was just taking estimates and had to take my heart pills as a prices were coming out," said Wolinsky.

At Imagination Farms on Orange Drive west of Flamingo Road, workers spent the morning clearing debris. Throughout the night and into the early hours of the morning FPL crews worked on replacing power pole and power lines knocked over by the powerful wins that rolled in.

"It sounded like a train type thing and the house was moving a little bit like," said Brandon Muehlenfeld.

Muehlenfeld said he and his mom saw what appeared to be a small tornado or funnel cloud rip across the lake behind their home.

Initial reports of a tornado causing some of the damage in Davie Wednesday were confirmed the following day.

"After surveying the damage in Davie we can confirm a small tornado EF zero, with up to 70 to 80 mile per hour winds," said Robert Molleda with the National Weather Service.

The National Weather Service said the tornado initially touched down in Imagination Farms then traveled west-southwest uprooting several trees and damaging roof tiles. The tornado appeared to have lifted briefly just south of Griffin Road as it entered Southwest Ranches and did little damage. The damage increased west of SW 148th Avenue in the Ivanhoe Estates as it continued to move to the southwest.