ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - A neighborhood in St. Pete was drying out Monday after this weekend’s storms brought flooding residents say they’ve never experienced.

"It looked like a cascade," Nestor Lopez, who had lived in Disston Heights for nine years, said.

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Lopez and his neighbors said they’ve never seen their streets flood like they did this weekend, even during hurricanes.

"What happened last night, it was hard to believe unless you saw it," Silvia Paredes, who has lived there for 53 years, said. "That amount of water was going up on the curve into people's yards and all of that dirt flushing down," she said.

Neighbors said water reached front doors and garages of several homes, flooding one of the garages. They blame the construction of an affordable housing pro

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