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Tribune News Service
Tribune News Service
National
David Lyons

Fort Lauderdale airport finally reopens after historic rainfall

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.

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