'Just devastated': Palm Bay homeowner talks flooding, damage

Tragic update this morning out of Palm Bay. Officials now confirming that a missing driver has been found dead. We just know that this was an adult male victim. We don't have a lot of other details. Well, we do know that more than 15 inches of rain fell in Brevard County, making yesterday one of the wettest days in history. And Amanda Ruiz is live in Palm Bay today where there's a lot of devastation there. So give us an idea of what the residents there are looking at this morning. Good morning, y'all. Yeah, we've been updating you from this road all morning. I want you to take a look at it once again. We were just told by law enforcement they made an announcement to everyone that they were going to be closing the road down in about 10 minutes to reassess and kind of work on this road. When someone asked how long that will be, he said he doesn't know. He knows it's going to take a long time, though. I'm here with Ty Hayes. Ty Hayes is the owner of the house right behind me, and he owns all four of these cars right here. That were damaged because of this storm yesterday. Ty, first of all, thank you so much for speaking to us. And I'm sorry it's under these conditions. How are you feeling right now? Oh, I'm just devastated. You know, we lost everything, you know. We've already been going through a lot, you know. And now on top of this, everything here. I just don't know what we're going to do now, you know. You told me you were in this house yesterday. What did you hear? What did you see? Did you know it was going to be this bad? No, I was just making a cup of coffee, about to go to work, and then I heard like a loud crack. So I went to go look out my back door, and then that's when I noticed that the canal had broke, and it broke through my fence, and it just started flooding my house. So I just ran. Get all my family and animals out. And everyone's okay, correct? Yeah, everybody's fine. Okay, good. Looking at your cars, your driveway's not even here. The road that connected to your driveway is not here. What are your thoughts on that? Just going to need a lot of help, you know what I mean? Hopefully, try to get things back to normal if we can, you know? I see a lot of neighbors coming up to you, and they're saying they're sorry. They're giving your condolences. How has your neighbors been? Have people been rallying behind you? Thank you. I mean, I guess we'll just see what support comes from it, you know. The neighbor took us in yesterday to help us until I could get everybody out, you know, so I'm grateful for that, you know. Just got to go from here. Insurance-wise, I know you told me that you've talked to your car insurance, but what have they been saying? Is help coming your way? I'm not sure. Right now they're kind of... Kind of playing the blame game, insurance blaming the city, the city blaming insurance. I'm not sure what's what out of it. I'm going to try to deal with some of that today if I can and just see what can happen. Next steps, are you just going to take it day by day? What is it going to look like for you? You don't even know. I don't know because we don't even have transportation or nothing, so just got to see what happens. Thank you so much for talking to us, Ty. I'm so sorry that this is happening to you. Again, this is a one-way street, so not only Ty's almost trapped in here, all these neighbors on the other side are also trapped. They're going to be working on this road today in about 10 minutes. We're going to be sure to keep you updated, but right now we have to keep all these people in our prayers, especially Ty. This is going to be a long road to recovery, but... We're going to be keeping you in our prayers. Thank you, Ty. I'll send it back to you guys in the studio. Hey, Amanda, before we let you go, that scene, oh, it's already gone. We want to go back to that and see what all those people are doing because that is truly amazing. Well, we saw a little boy with his backpack on and then grandparents with a stroller. Are we able to go back to Amanda, you guys, if we could try to do that real quick? Amanda, are you able to hear us still? Yes, I can hear you. We see all these people who are trying to get across, you know, with baby strollers and backpacks, a little boy there. Where are people going? Obviously, there's no school today. I think because once the law enforcement made that announcement that they're going to be closing it in 10 minutes, the panic almost set in, especially when they started to say how long it would be. And FWC, the police here, they couldn't give them an answer. They said, As long as it takes so again this is a one way out so when you hear that and you hear that you don't know how long you'll be in your house if you don't got groceries if you don't have anything any way out I can see the panic almost start to set in when they're just like okay grab what you can let's go. So Amanda how so I know a lot of people are panicking right now. I know you haven't been able to get down that street but there are there a lot of people who live down that street are they all going to have to walk out like this. Oh yeah. There are several side streets in this area. You can see left and right, but it goes down and there's multiple streets down there. So it's really hard to believe that this is the one way out and this is what happened. But yeah, a lot of people live here and now they're starting to clear out there. There's police officers right now that's telling everyone that they need to move. So they're really, they're closing it down now. Okay. So Amanda, so just to be clear, the police officers are telling them that they cannot cross over, that it's too dangerous. They don't want them walking over or what that officer who's Who's over there? What is he telling them? Yeah, you can see that he's telling them. I think at first he was allowing people to cross over, but now it's scary. There's these wires that are hanging out right here in the middle of the road. I saw one person kicking them, and the police officer had to yell at him, being, don't touch that. You don't know what that could mean. And just, this is new for everyone. Again, this is a new thing. People have lived here 40 plus years, I've talked to, and they say they've never seen anything like this. So a lot of, this is new for everyone. I mean, that's one of the dangers, you don't realize, the kids were just walking across that strollers across downed wires to get out of their neighborhood. I had no idea. Amanda, please tell Mr. Hayes that we are praying for him. And you can just hear the pain in his voice and just what he's going through right now. So, of course, we will stay in touch with Mr. Hayes and continue to keep our viewers updated. But just our prayers going out to everybody, especially in southern Brevard County right now dealing with this. It is just beyond devastating. It's captivating seeing what's happening here. He'll appreciate that. Thank you. A lot of neighbors have been rallying around him. It's really nice. God bless. All right. Well, I mean, just, I mean, just horrific. And it literally makes your heart sick to know, like the day before everything was fine. You were going to work. The next day you walk out and all of these things are gone, but thank God they're all okay.