FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Officials and airline patrons of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, closed after being inundated by record rains, anxiously awaited a newly scheduled reopening on Friday.
Authorities said the airport reopened at 9 a.m. on Friday after the lowering of floodwaters and the removal of hazardous debris from runways and taxiways.
Nevertheless, they expected the airport to be a one-runway operation into the weekend as the north runway was fully submerged beneath several feet of standing rainwater in places. The south runway is dry.