Flash flooding, heavy rainfall and tornadoes have forced election officials in three different regions across the United States to move polling locations, scrambling Election Day plans in hot-button races.
\n\nAt least seventeen polling locations were moved in five Florida counties — including Brevard County, Indian River County, St. Lucie County, Martin County and Palm Beach County — after intense rainfall caused flash floods on Monday and into Tuesday morning.
\n\nRoads were impassable in several parts of the state’s Atlantic coast after a storm dumped as much as 22 inches of rain in 24 hours in a storm that “exceeded everyone’s expectations,” as one forecaster put it.
\n\nSevere storms were moving across Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas overnight on Tuesday. Forecasters issued a tornado watch that lasted until about 2:45 a.m. local time on Tuesday.
\n\nForecasters were also predicting possible flash flooding in parts of Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi on Tuesday, as that storm system continued to travel east. A flood watch remained in effect in some parts of Florida, though rainfall rates were slowing.
\n\n“Areas affected by catastrophic flooding remain extremely sensitive to any additional rainfall,” forecasters wrote in a Tuesday morning forecast discussion.
\n\nIn Oklahoma, a tornado on Sunday…
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