PALM BAY, Fla. — Residents in parts of Brevard County are continuing to clean up after historic flooding left some neighborhoods difficult to access and damaged homes in Palm Bay.
The Red Cross provided meals Thursday night to residents at the Tony Rosa Community Center.
Some of the people who came for dinner were from the Badger Drive area, where cleanup efforts were underway and trash lined the street as residents threw away damaged belongings.
Julie Angulo, a Palm Bay resident, said her mother lives on Badger Drive and had to be rescued this week as floodwater entered her home.
“This is my mom being rescued on a canoe, that’s her neighbor,” Angulo said.
Angulo said the water in the neighborhood reached her mother’s knees. Her family is now removing damaged items, and walls in the home are being taken out for repairs.
“There’s no words. We’ve never had nothing like this happen in our community,” Angulo said.
She said church members came to help move heavy items from her mother’s home.
“She had her church members come to my house and help pickup the heavy things and they said ‘we’ll do anything for your mom, your mom feeds us, she brings us food, you know, I get the chills, that’s...