Cars push through Palm Bay floodwater as torrential rain falls
FOX Weather's street-level footage accompanies wider reporting on deaths, rescues and flood-related closures along Florida's Space Coast.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 89,570 views a day, 11 times a normal first day on this channel (8,201).
Heavy Rain Triggers Life-threatening Flooding In The Sunshine State
A black sedan inches along a residential road, sending wakes through water that covers the pavement and curb. Rain keeps falling as the camera pans across flooded yards, then turns toward another approaching vehicle.
The footage, credited on screen to Sav Olivas in Palm Bay, is brief and without speech. It shows the conditions behind FOX Weather's warning of life-threatening flooding, with little visible distinction between the street and the properties beside it.
In a follow-up report, the network says two people died in Palm Bay floodwaters and more than 100 rescues took place across Brevard County. Its broader Space Coast coverage reports road closures, closed public schools and polling locations moved for Election Day because of the flooding.
The Palm Bay Short drew roughly 90,000 views in its first day, more than ten times the channel's usual start for that format. Several other reports from the same flooding also drew unusually large audiences, including its longer Space Coast update.
A separate rescue clip offers a closer account of the response: FOX Weather says Rick Addante helped Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission personnel carry his elderly neighbor and the neighbor's dog, Bella, to an airboat and safety.
A city in Brevard County, Florida. It is the county’s most populous city, with nearly 120,000 residents recorded in the 2020 census.
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- Channel
- FOX Weather
- Subscribers
- 1,090,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 4,409,103
- Channel views, pace per day
- 367,631 (on a normal day: 814,967)
- Video published
- November 3, 2026
- Video views so far
- 98,616 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 92,976
The numbers
The Palm Bay footage drew an unusually large first-day audience for a FOX Weather Short. Other uploads covering the Florida flooding also started well above the channel's usual pace for their formats.


