BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – One of the last places in Central Florida that needs more rain, bad weather continued Wednesday at North Brevard Arts in the Garden in Titusville.
"Everyday things come floating out the school house. We've lost all the supplies. They are now floating in the water," owner Maxine Trainer told News 6 on the grounds of her not-for-profit children's art school.
Trainer may have Irish heritage, but there's nothing lucky about all the green water engulfing the garden since Hurricane Irma in September.
Trainer said in some spots, the algae-filled swamp is 3- or 4-feet deep.
"What you see right now is usually grass. Kids play on there," Trainer told News 6, saying 200 kids a year for 14 years have attended her art camps and after-school programs. "It truly is a beautiful place and it's the kids that make it magic."
She blamed poor city drainage for the water not receding.
"So when we get 1 inch here in Titusville, I get 12," she said.
The city said because the art garden is Trainer's property, workers can only help her if she gets her own pump. Workers could then tie it to Titusville's drainage system.
In other parts of the county, the same floodwaters are still standing all this time after the hurricane.
"I wish it were gone," Kathy Waddington of Matthew Drive in Rockledge told News 6.
The 72-year-old said the water is literally dividing neighbors.
"My neighbor just lives over there, and she and I can't get together because of the water," Waddington said.
The flooding in Brevard County is so profound it delayed the opening of a major highway connecting Melbourne and Micco.
A 3-mile, $13 million part of the St. Johns Heritage Parkway in south Brevard was scheduled to open this week. The county told News 6 Wednesday it's now expected to open by early December.