Titusville Mayor Dan Diesel notes that television weather coverage of incoming monstrous Hurricane Milton continually mentions Melbourne and Daytona Beach — not Titusville — while describing the storm’s projected path across Florida’s East Coast.
But Diesel worries that his North Brevard city of roughly 50,000 residents may see dangerous flooding from torrential rainfall and damages from howling hurricane-force winds along the northern portion of Milton’s eye, or central core.
“We’re saturated. Our city is saturated from the rain we’ve just had, and we’ve had a pretty wet season. There are places where there’s standing water in medians,” Diesel said…