Did a Miami Man Really Catch a Fish in South Beach Floodwater Yesterday? 
By Jerry Iannelli US Source: miami new times 8/2/2017
Jerry Iannelli
Miami flooded in biblical proportions last night thanks in part to rising seas and a warming planet. This goes without saying, but the deluge devastated Miami Beach business owners, people who own oceanfront property, and anyone who likes driving on streets that aren't underwater.
 

However, the flooding has been wonderful for viral-video content producers and the hapless internet sleuths tasked with separating fact from fiction in the screaming maelstrom that is the 2017 social media landscape. This includes the tortured staffers at New Times, who have been flummoxed all day by a video that appears to show a man standing on the corner of Washington Avenue and Seventh Street in South Beach and catching an actual fish in the floodwater:
"You go, man!' someone shouts, as a man wearing flip-flops and socks reels in a small fish from a small lake that had formed in the road.

"Caught that dinner, baby!" he shouts.

 
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