DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) - Families in Deerfield Beach are left cleaning up after their homes following Saturday’s flooding.
In one neighborhood, piles of ruined furniture and other damaged belongings can be seen along the street.
“All of our furniture is water logged,” said resident Thomas Noland. “All of our flooring is completely saturated. All of our cabinets are soaked. Our refrigerator stopped working.”
In Noland’s home on Southeast Eighth Avenue, flood water got underneath the vinyl flooring.
“We had about, probably, three to four inches throughout the entire house,” said Noland. “And some of the rooms that sit closer to the road, we had six to seven inches.”
The extent of the damages reached the whole family.
“Telling a five- and seven-year-old that your Pokémon have to go in the garbage is not a good conversation you want to have,” Noland said.
This isn’t the first time neighbors have dealt with this flooding.
“Every time it rains for the past three years, I can’t,” said Jillian Lerner, whose house flooded. “I’m so stressed out because I never know if its going to flood.”
They say their homes have been flooded three times in the past six years.
“We’ve been out of our house a total of eight months for the first two floods,” Lerner said. “And now, it’s probably going to be four more months. So out of six years, we’ll be out of the house for a year.”
Lerner and her family just moved back into their home in March.
Seven months later, they got five inches of water inside.
“My children, I had to move them up to higher beds,” said Lerner. “They were on the low beds, they have a bunk bed. We moved them to our bed. Everything was damaged, all of our furniture is gone.”
On Southeast 7th Avenue, Joshua Fay had water get into his garage.
“Everything in our garage was ruined,” said Fay. “And we still haven’t moved fully back in. So we have stuff inside of a pod out in our front lawn, and everything in the pod is ruined, including childhood books which you can’t replace. I can get the same book at the store, but it’s not the that one my mom gave me.”
Fay and his family are still recovering from the flooding that occurred a year ago.
“It’s very scary,” Fay said. “Like it’s just one of those things where you don’t know how to tell your child it’s going to be okay and make them feel safe.”
These neighbors are calling for something to be done so they don’t have to go through this again.
“This problem is not going away, as you can see,” Noland said.
Neighbors told 7 News they have been voicing their concerns about the flooding to city leaders for years and plan to continue at their Oct. 20 commission meeting.
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