A lifelong aviation enthusiast who joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in 2007, Curt came to&nbsp;the publication&nbsp;from the broadcast industry where he was a national science and technology television reporter and producer. He writes on the FBO field, aviation finance, and sustainable aviation and occasionally contributes to&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;sister publication&nbsp;Business Jet Traveler. Curt was a member of the AINtv reporting staff that won the 2008 Aerospace Journalist of the Year award for Best Airshow Daily. That same year, he was a finalist for another AJOYA award. He earned an AJOYA for Best Business Aviation Submission in 2018 and was a finalist in that category in 2021. He received the National Air Transportation Association’s&nbsp; Aviation Journalist Award in 2012 and won a Pegasus Sapphire Business Aviation Award for outstanding journalism in 2021.
Before joining AIN, Curt worked with&nbsp;Consumer Reports’ television division, CRTV, and for several local television news staffs. An honors graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, he earned a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University in 1995. Curt lives in New York State with his wife and two young sons.

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Curt Epstein

Florida’s Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport (KFLL) partially reopened this morning at 9 a.m. after storms deluged the area with "historic" amounts of rain over the past several days. According to the National Weather Service, the region received nearly 26 inches of rain on Wednesday, which reduced visibility to blizzard-like conditions and spurred the city and Broward County to declare a state of emergency. KFLL was forced to close Wednesday evening as its runways and local roads were inundated with water and remained closed on Thursday as Fort Lauderdale received another three inches of rain.
As of this morning, the northern 9,000-foot Runway 10L/28R remained flooded but operations resumed on 8,000-foot Runway 10R/28L and Taxiway J. The National Weather Service stated&nbsp;up to two inches of rain is further expected for the area this afternoon.
Sheltair, which occupies the largest leasehold among FBOs at KFLL, told AIN it experienced excessive flooding on its aprons, while some of its older hangars in its northside complex had water intrusion on the ground level office spaces. However,&nbsp;its FBO terminal was not impacted&nbsp;and no aircraft damage was reported.
Nearby Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport did not close during the storm, and Banyan Air Service—which sits on 120 acres at the airfield—noted no water in its buildings. A spokesperson said the FBO was extremely busy receiving private aircraft diverted from the KFLL.

Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport Reopens After 'Historic' Rainfall

After enduring what was described as a once-in-a-lifetime rainstorm, Florida's Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport. 

Fort Lauderdale Int'l Reopens after 'Historic' Rainfall

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