ORLANDO, Fla. – Two men caught a large bass on a flooded Orlando road on Thursday as a man on a riding mower came cruising down the middle of the drenched street – a moment of much-needed levity after days of wondering what Hurricane Milton would bring to Florida.
The humorous scene was caught on Edgewater Drive as News 6 reporter Donovan Myrie and photojournalist Destiny Santana were reporting on damage after Milton crossed the state. Nearby Lake Adair flooded the road, causing a headache for some but an opportunity for others.
Myrie tells Jake Hutcheson and Phillip Diaz that he saw them catch the fish in the road when the most Florida thing happens.
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“I did. Right in the tree. Honestly, it’s tradition now. Hurricane Ian: same exact thing happened,” said Diaz, still holding the fish and his fishing pole.
As Myrie interviews the two men on Edgewater Drive in the College Pare area, a third man on a riding mower comes cruising through the middle of the scene.
“That’s America if I’ve ever seen it,” quipped Hutcheson at the odd scene.
The man drives through the middle of the street and the interview without a care in the world before Diaz is seen releasing the bass back into the street water.
“We make the best of it,” Hutcheson said. “Obviously, we come out here and fish after the storm, which is great, but it’s not fun for the people whose stuff gets ruined at all.”
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