No Flood Controls on Rivers in Fort Lauderdale (Miami, Islamorada: apartment complexes, house)

[HotandHumid]

I've read that just in case there is a such a strong storm surge from a hurricane hitting Fort Lauderdale that the canals in the area have a system of gates and locks on them so that the water levels in the canals can be lowered so that if a storm surge makes it up the rivers and into the canals that homes and apartment complexes sit next to, the problem of the canals overflowing their banks and flooding the surrounding neighborhoods can be lessened.
I've lived near the rivers that flow through and around the neighborhoods in Fort Lauderdale and I've noticed that they flow backwards taking high level water into the neighborhoods that stays in the river during high tide and then flow back into the oceans during low tide.
Since there is no system of gates and locks on the rivers to prevent them from overflowing and flooding the neighborhoods that sit next to them, it seems that elected officials in Fort Lauderdale have failed to address the need for putting in protective measures on our rivers since sea levels have already risen and continue to do so and the chances are getting better and better during heavy rains and storm surges from hurricanes traveling from the Intracoastal up the rivers for large portions of Fort Lauderdale to be flooded and the water not receding until the tides begin to carry it back out since the ground gets so saturated here during heavy rains falling to the ground that can't absorb a lot of water since that ground is already pretty saturated from below even without heavy rain because of the high water table under Fort Lauderdale.
If I owned a property on or near one of the rivers in Fort Lauderdale, I think I'd be concerned about elected officials in Fort Lauderdale spending time and taxpayer money to pass and enforce laws to keep some homeless people from being given food instead of working to protect their lives and properties citizens from the devastating results of major flooding that's happened in the past here due to the heavy rains from hurricanes and tropical storms.

[City Guy997S]

Originally Posted by HotandHumid

I've read that just in case there is a such a strong storm surge from a hurricane hitting Fort Lauderdale that the canals in the area have a system of gates and locks on them so that the water levels in the canals can be lowered so that if a storm surge makes it up the rivers and into the canals that homes and apartment complexes sit next to, the problem of the canals overflowing their banks and flooding the surrounding neighborhoods can be lessened.

Since there is no system of gates and locks on the rivers to prevent them from overflowing and flooding the neighborhoods that sit next to them,.

So which is it?

[City Guy997S]

I played along, deleting the rest of the nonsense in the post but underlining the contradictory parts.

A. Storm surge will decimate the whole coastal area (canals or no canals)
B. Flood gates move fresh water through the locks dumping them in ocean going canals, they do nothing for salt water as the ocean isn't manageable with tides. The canals exist for drainage in residential areas.
C. Reading comprehension isn't your strong suit, I get that but to post new threads is a waste of everyone's time (yours included)

[HotandHumid]

I was of the understanding that the canals that go through Fort Lauderdale were separated by gates and locks from the rivers to keep the rivers that rise and fall with the tides, since they are connected to the ocean, from flooding the surrounding neighborhoods during tropical storms and hurricanes but it seems from what little information I could find, the locks and gates are located at the areas where the canals end so they can be opened to empty flood waters into the Everglades but that there's not much use in that if the Everglades to the west of Fort Lauderdale become flooded by the heavy rains that often accompany tropical storms and hurricanes.
Someone told me recently that during one of the hurricanes, South Florida Water Management forgot to open the gates to the canals but that Fort Lauderdale was lucky that there wasn't a major storm surge off the ocean to flood the neighborhoods from that hurricane as there has been during some past hurricanes that have hit Fort Lauderdale that resulted in major flooding within the city limits of seawater.
I recently saw a video of what Hurricane Andrew did to the areas it hit south of Miami and some of the people interviewed said they were in their homes when the storm surge happened and that they had to climb up on pieces of furniture to keep their heads above water inside of their homes as the ocean came in. One man in the video said he couldn't believe that their house could be so far inland and that the water from the ocean had come so far in but he said he reached down in the water from the dresser he and his wife were standing on and brought some up to taste it and it was saltwater brought in from the ocean by the storm surge. I also read that a lot of the damage in hurricanes is not only from the wind but also is due to the flooding from the storm surge that's been recorded to have been at least 18 feet in height when it hit Islamorada in 1935, even with a barrier reef to break it up before it hit there and that because Fort Lauderdale sits so low next to the ocean, that the flood waters don't recede much after a storm surge until the tide goes down and the flood waters can be carried back to the ocean by the rivers. I saw some vintage photos on the Internet of floods in Fort Lauderdale caused by storm surges from hurricanes and they were pretty amazing.