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In case you missed it, it’s been a wild fall in Florida. After catching the brunt of Hurricane Ian in September, a rare November hurricane (Nicole) made landfall near Vero Beach yesterday, as the tropical storm caused coastal flooding and large storm swell. Hutchinson Island, a pair of barrier islands on the eastern Florida coast north of West Palm Beach experienced this coastal flooding in spades and a surf shop owner caught video that seems to be going viral – even if there are doubts about what was actually caught on film.
Jordan Schwartz of Ohana Surf Shop was driving on Hutchinson Island when he captured footage of two objects that look like fins floating down a flooded street: “There’s a couple sharks, swimming on the streets,” he says. They do look like fins, but are they fins of a surfboard? Or some other object floating down the road that more closely resembled a river? It’s likely and commenters were equally skeptical.
But local news picked up the video and ran with it, as you can see here. To Schwartz’s credit, he seems like a good dude running a good surf shop and his storm coverage of Nicole was solid on his Instagram page. But nothing like a little shark-nado to get the interest of the masses.
