What do you do when in the eye of the hurricane? Go for a dip, of course. A Florida resident sparked waves of concern across the panhandle when she was filmed swimming through a flooded street during Hurricane Idalia.
A video of her doing laps amid disaster has amassed over 1.3 million views on TikTok as viewers wondered if the activity was safe or even sanitary.
“This was truly ‘the perfect storm,’” Lexi DeLeon, 23, told Jam Press of her mid-deluge dip, which occurred at 4:45 a.m. on Anna Maria Island in Manatee County.
This came right before the Category 3 storm battered the panhandle, knocking out power lines, ripping roofs off houses and inundating entire neighborhoods with water.
Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/08/31/woman-swims-through-idalia-flooded-florida-caught-on-video/
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