FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. — Wallace Panides lives four blocks away from Main Beach Park in Fernandina Beach.
"I’ve been here about 35 years," said Panides. "I come this way everyday."
However, on Monday when passing his neighborhood park, it looked a little different.
"It floods, occasionally," he said. "Heavy downpour, some of these streets will flood... not to the point you can’t get through, but there’s water."
A park bench, shower, sidewalk and parking lot were all partially underwater.
"As far as it being all the way up to the top of the seat of the bench there, that’s not happened," said J.M. Bailey, another Fernandina Beach resident.
Bailey's afternoon walks with her dog consists of the two walking through the park that's now filled with water.
"Even the last couple tropical storms, it’s not flooded this area here just on the other side of where the shower is that’s intentional, they created [a] retention pond," she said. "The parking lot doesn’t flood, it’s unusual."
According to the city of Fernandina Beach, they have been addressing the drainage issues.
The Stormwater Department is using high-capacity pumps to move rainwater away from flooded zones into stormwater relief drains.