Photos: Powerful cross-country storm leaves trail of deadly destruction after week of historic flooding

THE TAKEAWAY

• A monolithic cross-country tempest impacted much than 120 cardinal radical crossed much than 35 states this week.
• Parts of the Southwest and the confederate Appalachians were slammed by grounds flooding, submerging streets successful floodwaters.
• Florida's Space Coast saw 2 back-to-back 1,000-year rainfall events.

Communities crossed the federation are inactive reeling aft a almighty cross-country tempest and a stubborn Florida upwind signifier combined to nutrient a week of destructive flooding and Flash Flood Emergencies.

Record stream crests crossed the Southwest

The monolithic strategy influenced by El Niño archetypal slammed into the Southwest precocious Saturday arsenic a important flood lawsuit unfolded done Tuesday.

Intense rainfall connected Sunday triggered a Flash Flood Emergency astir the San Juan River successful Colorado and Arizona.

The municipality of Pagosa Springs, Colorado, was among the communities hardest deed by flooding, which triggered evacuations implicit the play that lasted until midweek. Colorado, Arizona and Utah each declared states of emergency.

The municipality said it suffered important harm to its sewer strategy and different infrastructure.

The Pagosa Springs Museum was near teetering connected an embankment aft washing distant portion of the building's foundation.

Florida's Space Coast slammed by historical flooding

Parts of Florida’s Space Coast were slammed by back-to-back 1,000-year rainfall events connected Sunday and Monday that near 2 radical dead. A beardown country of precocious unit funneled moisture implicit the state, enhancing rainfall totals from a tempest strategy that stalled implicit the region.

The historical rainfall has prompted exigency declarations and warnings crossed parts of Florida. Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a authorities of exigency Monday crossed 7 counties.

Several polling sites were moved for Election Day owed to utmost flooding.

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Neighborhoods were wholly flooded successful Melbourne, Port St. Lucie and Palm Bay arsenic roads turned into canals. The Brevard County Sheriff's Office said that they received galore calls of radical trapped successful their homes and connected flooded roads, prompting high-water rescues.

Melbourne recorded 11.51 inches of rainfall Monday, the wettest time successful the city's past since record-keeping began successful 1937. 

Flooding successful Port St. Lucie, Florida, connected Nov. 4, 2026.

(Port St. Lucie Police Department / FOX Weather)

Meanwhile, a level crashed adjacent Cresthaven, Florida, conscionable earlier 1 p.m. connected Sunday, sidesplitting each 9 radical connected board.

"The level apt flew done a processing thunderstorm that moved successful from the south-east astir 5 minutes anterior to the crash," the FOX Forecast Center said.

Nearly 150 radical rescued on the Tennessee-Georgia authorities enactment pursuing historical flooding

As the almighty cross-country tempest barreled its mode east, aggravated storms swamped the Copper River Basin on the Georgia-Tennessee border, prompting a Flash Flood Emergency aboriginal Thursday. 

All told, astatine slightest 80 radical were rescued successful Fannin County, Georgia, pursuing wide flooding.

Meanwhile, successful Tennessee's Polk County, astatine slightest 68 radical were rescued, prompting officials to state a authorities of exigency successful the county.

Starting astatine 3 a.m. Thursday, radical successful immoderate McCaysville, Georgia neighborhoods had to evacuate immediately. Officials said swift h2o rescue teams went into enactment aft h2o surged into aggregate homes and businesses.

The City of McCaysville declared a authorities of exigency aboriginal Thursday greeting and radical were asked to enactment retired of the metropolis with clean-up is underway.

The Toccoa River successful Georgia and the Ocoee River successful Tennessee surged into large flood stage, cresting astatine a caller grounds implicit 18 feet aft 5 to 8 inches of rainfall fell crossed overmuch of the portion implicit conscionable 12 hours.

Cross-country tempest swamps East Coast arsenic it moves offshore

In the storm's last act, it triggered flash flooding crossed parts of Monmouth County, New Jersey, and South Jersey during the greeting rush.

The storms besides prompted crushed delays and crushed stops astatine large Northeast airports including, Newark International, LaGuardia, John F. Kennedy International and Boston Logan International.

All told, the tempest impacted much than 120 cardinal radical crossed much than 35 states.