Brevard sees wind and flood damage

Brevard County wakes up Thursday to extreme winds, massive power outages and flooding across the Space Coast due to Hurricane Milton. A likely tornado touched down in Cocoa Beach on Wednesday.

The storm was a Category 1 storm when it reached Brevard in the early hours of Thursday morning and moved into the Atlantic over Cape Canaveral. A strong Category 3 hurricane, it made landfall near Siesta Key at 8:30 p.m. Thursday.

It was a rough night for Brevard County, starting Wednesday evening when a possible tornado ripped through Cocoa Beach, destroying several homes and buildings. The roof of a Wells Fargo was blown off, a Supercuts was destroyed and the mayor's house was also damaged.

National Weather Service investigators must conduct an investigation before officially declaring a tornado.

Reports of flooding were received from across the county. A hotel in Grant was flooded and had to be evacuated. From Satellite Beach to Rockledge, the streets were under water. Rainfall in northern Brevard was expected to be so severe that a fourth shelter was opened.

Where is Hurricane Milton?

According to the latest update from the National Hurricane Center, Milton moved into the Atlantic Ocean off the east coast of Florida near Cape Canaveral at 5 a.m., still as a hurricane with sustained winds of 85 miles per hour.

The eye of the storm passed somewhere between Titusville and the Kennedy Space Center early Thursday morning. Milton moved offshore around 4 a.m. Brevard continued to be hit by the back side of the storm hours later.

“We will still see tropical storm to hurricane-force winds throughout the morning,” Brendan Schaper, a meteorologist at the National Weather Center in Melbourne, said early Thursday morning. “At some point this evening we will see a weakening of the winds.”

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Brevard County officials opened a fourth emergency shelter late Wednesday at the Port St. John Community Center, 6650 Corto Road, Cocoa.

The shelter was activated from a standby list “out of an abundance of caution.” It is open to both the general public and pets. Nearly 200 people filled Brevard's three other shelters Wednesday.

All four emergency shelters in the district are located here:

South Mainland Community Center, 3700 Allen Ave., Micco, FL 32976
Walter Butler Community Center, 4201 N Cocoa Blvd, Cocoa, FL 32927
Wickham Park Community Center, 2815 Leisure Way, Melbourne, FL 32935
Port St. John Community Center, 6650 Corto Road, Cocoa

The shelters are pet friendly. Space Coast Area Transit will provide transportation to shelters for registered customers with special needs. To request transportation to an emergency shelter, call 2-1-1.

Residents going to shelters must bring their own supplies such as bedding, folding chairs or sleeping bags. It is also recommended that you bring any necessary medications, multiple changes of clothing, personal hygiene items, and entertainment items such as games, cards, books, or magazines.

Just after 6 a.m., 85,430 power outages were reported in Brevard (24.1% of all accounts).

– Jim Waymer

A flash flood warning has been issued for northwest Brevard County until 9 a.m. Thursday.

Doppler radar and automatic rain gauges indicated thunderstorms that dumped heavy rain across the warned area. Between 4 and 7 inches of rain fell, according to the National Weather Service. An additional 2 to 4 inches of rainfall is possible in the warning area.

Spitzer is a trend reporter. She can be reached at [email protected].

Brevard sees wind and flood damage

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