Flooded streets make it easy for walking catfish to slither along Treasure Coast roads

Maureen Kenyon | Treasure Coast Newspapers

Show Caption Hide Caption Walking catfish squirms out of flooded swale in Port St. Lucie Trends reporter Maureen Kenyon filmed a walking catfish slithering along a driveway Monday morning in the Southbend neighborhood of Port St. Lucie. Streets in the neighborhood were starting to flood at 8:15 a.m. MAUREEN KENYON/TCPALM

It's been raining so much lately that catfish are slithering through flooded Treasure Coast streets.

On Monday, trends reporter Maureen Kenyon noticed one pop out of a flooded drain pipe in her Southbend neighborhood in Port St. Lucie. She nudged it back into a flooded swale so it could find it's way back to a bigger pond.

Pamela Jean shared a video to TCPalm's Facebook page of a walking catfish swimming in a flooded area in Palm City:

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Over the next five days, a system in the Gulf of Mexico has a 20 percent chance for development and could bring even more rain to Florida.

Locally heavy rain is the main threat across western Cuba and Florida over the next several days and could affect the Memorial Day weekend.

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Maureen Kenyon is TCPalm's trends reporter, keeping Treasure Coast residents updated on hot topics and happenings. Do you have a story to tell? Want to start a conversation? Send an email to maureen.kenyon@tcpalm.com, call 772-221-4249 or follow her on Twitter @_MaureenKenyon_.