With flooding more common, New Smyrna reaches out for solutions
While a crew worked in a back room to lay new floors, Carpenter played a cellphone video showing the floodwater trickling in through a door jam.
"I sandbagged us in," Carpenter said. "I climbed in through a window. It was all just packed with sandbags -- but it didn't do any good."
As Irma tore through
A neighborhood meeting to discuss options for the Central Beach area has been set for
The Central Beach district isn't the only neighborhood dealing with flooding in the city.
The Central Beach district had recently received
City Manager
"It doesn't necessarily have to be a hurricane event, it can be a nor'easter or a king tide," Brangaccio said. "We seem to be getting it more often."
Unprecedented flooding
Mayor
"I've lived in
Hathaway and his neighbors in the city's Central Beach district were shocked.
The city never expected
In the weeks after the storm, Brangaccio said residents of the neighborhood asked what the city planned to do to protect them from future flooding.
The residents were told they have a couple of options: They could sell their homes to the city and abandon them, or they could petition the
"That's a message they weren't ready to hear," Brangaccio said.
The recurring flooding is one topic to be discussed by residents during the city's recently launched series of "Coastal Community Resiliency" workshops. The series will continue with 10 monthly meetings through November at the
Rising waters
For
The federal Flood Insurance Program has seen increased losses after disaster events since 2003. The program borrowed
Hurricane Irma, on
In
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Carpenter is interested.
"Personally, I think if we were able to lift the house up, that would be awesome," he said.
While the Flood Mitigation Assistance program requires a house to flood at least twice before an applicant can be qualified, Fegley said the Hazard Mitigation funds are less restrictive.
It will likely be a two- to three-year process, Fegley said. "Unfortunately, we're going to have to go through a couple of hurricane seasons."
Carpenter intends to wait it out and attend the workshops if he can. Asked how long he plans to stay in the beachside community, he smiled. "Forever."
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