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Shocking video shows suspected shark swimming through flooded streets of coastal Florida city

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A woman in Fort Pierce, Florida, recorded a video showing what she believes is a shark swimming through flooded streets near 25th and Midway Street on Monday afternoon. The city has experienced extensive flooding due to heavy rainfall and high tides. Franshara Napoleon captured the footage while picking up her daughter from school. Experts suggest that it might actually be a tarpon, given their tendency to inhabit brackish waters closer to inland areas.
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A woman in Fort Pierce, Florida captured video of what appears to be a shark swimming through floodwaters in a city intersection. Franshara Napoleon filmed the unusual sight on Monday afternoon while picking up her daughter from school at 25th and Midway Street as severe rain continued. The footage shows an unidentified large aquatic animal moving through flooded streets, raising questions about whether it was indeed a shark or another marine creature displaced by heavy flooding across Florida due to recent intense rainfall and high tides along the Atlantic Coast. This incident highlights the unusual consequences of extreme weather conditions in coastal areas.

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Florida Floridians Fort Pierce Miami the Sunshine State

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Florida GPE · 3× Fort Pierce GPE · 2× Napoleon PERSON · 2× Floridians NORP · 1× Franshara Napoleon PERSON · 1× McDonalds ORG · 1× Miami GPE · 1× Shark PERSON · 1× the Sunshine State GPE · 1×

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It wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility to see alligators and even fish treating residential roads as their own personal habitat, but a woman in Fort Pierce captured video of something that left even the most seasoned veteran of Florida floods scratching their heads in disbelief.
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🔮 When the streets flood in Florida, residents are bound to see some incredibly weird stuff that would make visitors question their sanity.
2026-11-06 · Fox News
Shocking video shows suspected shark swimming through flooded streets of coastal Florida city · assertive framing

Claims (13 extracted, 1 hedged)

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the situation, the state of Florida has received what can only be described as a biblical amount of rain over the past week. asserted
what → receive → week
Between the deluge and the King Tide affecting cities all along the Atlantic Coast of the peninsula, it's been a soggy last couple of days in what they usually call the Sunshine State. asserted
they → affect → what
When the streets flood in Florida, residents are bound to see some incredibly weird stuff that would make visitors question their sanity. asserted
visitors → flood → sanity
It wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility to see alligators and even fish treating residential roads as their own personal habitat, but a woman in Fort Pierce captured video of something that left even the most seasoned veteran of Florida floods scratching their heads in disbelief. asserted
that → see → disbelief
Well, maybe, but we'll get to that. Franshara Napoleon was picking up her daughter on Monday afternoon when she noticed "something moving in the water" at a flooded intersection at 25th and Midway Street. " asserted
she → get → Street
I was on my way to pick my daughter up from school before the storm got worse. asserted
storm → pick → school
I noticed something moving in the water in the flooded street so I began recording and realized it was a shark," Napoleon said. asserted
Napoleon → notice → street
Fort Pierce is a coastal town about two hours north of Miami, so it makes sense with the flooding that a shark would find its way onto shore in some capacity, but looking at a map tells me this poor guy was a long way from home. asserted
guy → make → home
The intersection of Midway and 25th street is a good three miles from the intracoastal, which could mean our toothy friend here had to do quite a bit of swimming to end up there. uncertain
friend → mean → swimming
Then again, the St. Lucie River is right down the street, and that eventually leads to the intracoastal, so perhaps Mr. Shark took a trip up stream looking for the nearest McDonalds. asserted
Shark → lead → McDonalds
There is a different theory, though, and that is that the shark in question wasn't a shark at all, but instead was a tarpon. asserted
shark → be → question
It checks out, since tarpon tend to hang out in brackish waters and it would be way more plausible to find one this far inland. asserted
it → check → one
We got one hell of a video as a result of it. asserted
We → get → it
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