Historic flooding hits parts of FL after extreme rain

Meanwhile, in Florida, torrential rain falling on Monday leading to what the National Weather Service is calling historic flooding for that area. You can see from some of these images just how intense it is. Cody Matz joining us now with a breakdown of the latest there. They're in emergency mode, Cody. Yeah, pretty much. Good morning. There are three spots in central and eastern Florida that received an extreme amount of rain yesterday. In fact, upwards of 20 inches of rain falling in just 12 hours. One of the hardest hit areas was in Port St. Lucie, where many roads were submerged with up to eight feet of water. Officials warning residents to avoid all unnecessary travel through the day today, as many roads remain closed. Now, this video also shows Brevard County, which is where Port St. Lucie is located, where the heavy rain submerging parking lots in just about every street in the east central Florida county. According to the National Weather Service, the overall probability of an event like this happening is roughly half a percent per year, or roughly once every 200 years. So imagine listening to the rain inside your house for a while, then opening the front door to this. Yeah, you now live inside a lake. That's fun. Obviously, this neighborhood totally flooded out. Look at this. Look at the trooper. The trooper is underwater. I don't even know where the road is, guys. The trooper is climbing out of his window. Yeah, some wild and scary scenes there. Even first responders having trouble with that rain. Near Port St. Lucie, a Florida State trooper had to climb out of the side of his squad car after being stuck in the heavily flooded roads. A nice reminder of the old saying, turn around, don't drown. But not everyone was worried about that flooding. Here you go. Fitting of the Florida man stereotype. One man was seen making the most out of the heavy rain, taking the time for a relaxing float down his flooded street. This obviously looks pleasant. It's fairly calm in that spot, but I advise against this for so many reasons. One of those being floodwaters are gross. Oops. Just plain and simple because all of the things that aren't normally wet or not normally in water are there. So that's some pretty disgusting water and something you don't really want to stick your face in. Now, in all, the state of Florida receiving 2.9 trillion gallons of rain yesterday. Oh, my God. That's all. There was so much rain, in fact, the state is now moving polling places in seven different counties due to that flooding and flooded streets and roads closed, and it's just kind of a mess. Yeah, what a disruption to, I mean, any day, but an election day where, you know, people are trying to get places to cast their vote. And that's reason 7,212,516 I don't live in Florida. Yeah. Like I said, it's just gross. It is. I don't need to hear your other reasons. Check. Like, it's not like you're not floating around in pool or bath water. Like, this is disgusting water. And I've covered a lot of floods, too. That water can pick stuff up. There can be debris in there that you can't see. A hundred percent. And like I said, that's one of so many reasons why you just shouldn't do that. Obviously, he brought his kids in that. Thankfully, they seem to be okay. But just don't do that. Don't do that. Okay. Thanks, Cody. Yeah.