Photos: Cars left stranded on South Florida's flooded streets

We were out in the field Thursday documenting the aftermath of this week's flooding .

• Here's some of what we found:

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Michelle Barreto. Photo: Martin Vassolo/Axios

New York tourist Michelle Barreto, 32, spent the latter part of her Miami vacation waiting for a tow truck to fish her rental car out of the flood.

• Barreto and friend Norah Amer, 29, got caught in the rain Wednesday night as they returned to their Hallandale Beach hotel from dinner and waited until 2am for a tow that never came.
• To make matters worse, their flight was delayed three times on Thursday.
• "You could not pay me enough to come back here," Amer said.

Stranded cars on a flooded street in Golden Glades. Photo: Martin Vassolo/Axios

The worst street we saw: Northeast 148th Street and 16th Avenue in Golden Glades was a lazy river on Thursday.

• Flooding from the day before had not dissipated by Thursday afternoon and water rose past the wheels of stranded cars.

Eastwood Mobile Home Park. Photo: Martin Vassolo/Axios

Lissette Aguilera, a resident at Eastwood Mobile Home Park in Hallandale Beach, was securing her patio furniture and organizing her belongings in preparation for another deluge.

• On Wednesday, she was carpooling home from her housekeeping job in Aventura when traffic hit. So she walked three hours home in the rain.
• The water hit her knees as she walked home, and she arrived to see it had entered her home, too.
• She's lived at the mobile home park for seven years and says it never used to flood. She blames all the construction in her neighborhood.
• "There's been hurricanes here and it never flooded."

Beachgoers brave the clouds at Mid-Beach. Sommer Brugal/Axios

Despite the cloudy skies, groups of beachgoers lounged at Mid-Beach Thursday morning.