
Running to safety: In this photo provided by Kyle Smith, floodwaters surround Smith’s home in Pensacola on Wednesday. Smith had to evacuate his home with his 18-month-old son Tuesday night after severe weather hit the Florida Panhandle, causing widespread flooding.
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On Wednesday, roads were chewed up into pieces or wiped out entirely and neighborhoods were inundated, making rescues difficult for hundreds of people who called for help when they were caught off guard by the single rainiest day ever recorded in Pensacola.
Deadly storms that started Sunday in Arkansas and Mississippi had moved to other parts of the U.S.A., causing a huge sinkhole in Baltimore and bad flash floods in Florida panhandle.
In Pensacola, people climbed into their attics to get away from fast-rising waters and some people were rescued from the rooftops of their homes.
Roads were destroyed and vehicles were plummeted 25 feet when portions of the Scenic Highway collapsed.
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Cars and concrete slabs collapse into a sinkhole on Scenic Highway in Pensacola after flash flooding. (Photo by Marianna Massey/Getty Images)
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People survey the damage on Piedmont Street in the Cordova Park neighborhood after it washed out due to heavy rains on April 30, 2014 in Pensacola, Florida.
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Shut down: A Pensacola Burger King sits in flood water as a man on a motorcycle bravely drives past on Brent Lane, one of the main roads in the city that was flooded out after heavy rains and flash flooding. (DailyMail)
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Residents survey the damage in Pensacola, after a major storm system released more than two feet of water in a day in the northwestern part of Florida. (Photo by Marianna Massey/Getty Images)
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The metal railings hang over brown flood water along Johnson Avenue, Pensacola, Florida. Severe flash flooding has after the region just days after tornados tore through the U.S. South and MidWest. (Reuters)
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