Neighbors in flood-prone Ken Knight Drive area ready for rain from Elsa
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Neighbors in flood-prone Ken Knight Drive area ready for rain from Elsa
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Heavy rainfall typically leaves parts of Ken Knight Drive in Northwest Jacksonville flooded, and Tropical Storm Elsa is expected to bring rain to the area.
“I expecting rain, plenty of rain, and I’m expecting this river to run over,” he said, referring to the Ribault River.
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The Ribault River runs parallel to parts of Ken Knight Drive. During Hurricane Irma in 2017, the river overflowed into the community, flooding out homes and leaving cars underwater. It was too much for the storm drains to handle.
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The St. Johns River runs right through the middle of Jacksonville, but many people who live here don t take much notice of it unless they re crossing one of the city s seven bridges. And that bothers Brett Waller.
Walller is curating a new art show that celebrates the St. Johns and its sister rivers, the Trout and Ribault. Th3Rivers Project opens Friday at the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum in Springfield and runs through May. People cross this river and see this river and engage with this river every day, but they don’t have any engagement with it, Waller said. I want people to have more engagement with this river.