After weekend flood, Edgewater calls for special meeting to address concerns

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Claudia Adkins / Submitted On Saturday, the Florida Shores community in Edgewater experienced flood waters during an evening thunderstorm. Now, residents are asking city leaders to stop residential development, which they believe is exacerbating the flooding issue.

Claudia Adkins and her husband were driving back to their Edgewater home from the movies Saturday night when they discovered waist-high flood waters along the road near their house.

Hundreds of residents had a similar experience either that same weekend or several times before.

Adkins said they’d only been away from home for a few hours, and yet water was threatening their doorstep when they returned to their house in Florida Shores. She said they got their baby out of the truck, went into the house, and began barricading the front and back entrances with sandbags…

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