Ian Is Long Gone but Water Keeps Rising in Central Florida

Gabriel Madling loads sandbags onto his kayak so he can fortify his house on a submerged street in Seminole County, Fla., on Oct. 2, 2022. Mike Schneider/AP Photo

GENEVA, Fla.—Residents in central Florida donned fishing waders, boots, and bug spray and canoed or kayaked to their homes on streets where floodwaters continued rising Sunday despite it being four days since Hurricane Ian tore through the state.

The waters flooded homes and streets that had been passable just a day or two earlier.