While the most obvious advice is to not drive through deep floods, people want to get to their destinations and often go right into the asphalt swamp. Even parked cars can suffer from water damage when the rising flood hits the undercarriage or seeps through the doorways.

Dry weather will be hard to come by across much of Florida this week, as a nearby storm system fuels repeated rounds of heavy downpours and strong thunderstorms.

“The risk of flooding will likely peak in the Wed-Thu timeframe as the boundary slides into the southern tip of the peninsula.”