[HairOfTheDog]

Flooding isn't the concern, the concern is high wind when it has been super wet, saturated ground can't hold the trees and they pull over.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

high wind when it has been super wet, saturated ground can't hold the trees and they pull over

Still sounds like normal Florida fall weather to me. It took nearly two months to remove the piles of dead trees and branches which lined every road in 100 miles.