🚨 Florida's St. Johns River RISING | Homes Flooding a Week After Palm Bay's 1,000-Year Rain

A week after Palm Bay's thousand-year rain, the flood in Florida isn't over. Much of the two feet of rain that fell on Malabar, Palm Bay and West Melbourne in early November 2026 drained west into the St. Johns River, one of the few rivers in America that flows north, and so flat that its flood peak travels for days after the rain stops. Near Cocoa, the river stood at 16.9 feet on Friday morning, above its 16-foot flood stage. The National Weather Service in Melbourne expects a crest of about 17.1 feet around November 10 or 11, almost exactly the 17.11 feet reached during Tropical Storm Fay in 2008, and only about an inch below the 17.2-foot level where water starts getting into homes around Lake Poinsett, Silver Pines in Rockledge and Shakespeare Park in Cocoa. This time, there was no named storm at all. In this video, we go through where the water came from, how the St. Johns flows north through a chain of shallow lakes, Cocoa's homes inches from the water, how this crest compares with hurricanes Irma and Fay, Lone Cabbage Fish Camp on State Road 520, the flood moving downstream to Lake Harney, Sanford, DeLand and Astor, the cleanup and the wait for federal aid in Palm Bay, when the river will go down, and the Peace River flood on Florida's west coast. Daily Weather Report covers natural disasters and extreme weather events across the United States as they develop, using sourced reporting and avoiding unsupported speculation. CHAPTERS 00:00 — The Flood Isn't Over 00:36 — Where the Water Came From 01:23 — A River That Flows North 02:03 — Cocoa: Inches From the Homes 03:17 — A Crest Like a Hurricane's 03:57 — Lone Cabbage 04:23 — Downstream 05:15 — Back in Palm Bay 06:05 — When Will It Go Down? 06:37 — Not the Only River SOURCES National Weather Service Melbourne and Tampa Bay; WKMG News 6; FOX 35 Orlando; Florida Today; weatherboy; Brevard County Emergency Management; St. Johns River Water Management District.