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After hours of relentless rain Sunday night, people in Mount Dora are still drying out and cleaning up from unexpected flooding that swept through parts of Lake County.Davis Watkins and Nicole Vallee live beside Wolf Creek and spent much of Monday repairing damage in their yard.“That thing rose about four feet and came about 20 feet of our house. And we have never ever ever seen it that high before,” Watkins said.Video captured the surging creek water washing away dirt from beneath their home. Fortunately, it never made it inside.“Typically, the creek is a little bit lower than it is right now — about a foot,” Vallee said. “But last night it rose all the way to these stakes and proceeded to flood my neighbor’s backyard.”Across the Mount Dora area, sandbags lined driveways and streets. Some homeowners were still pumping out standing water.“Yesterday was something biblical — something we’ve never seen before,” said Michael Siegel, another Mount Dora resident. “Mt. Dora is 180 feet above sea level, and I live on top of a hill. I still got water in my house.”Watkins and Vallee visited the city’s sandbag site Monday, shoveling sand to fill gaps and prepare for the next round of storms.“We’ve got sand to cover up some holes here,” Watkins said while working.Sunday’s flooding washed away the couple’s stacked wood pile and even carried off some of their patio furniture.“The furniture went down the stream, and one of the chairs is in a tree right there,” Vallee said.When asked if she’d try to retrieve it from the tree, she replied, “Game on — I don’t know, but I’ll do it.”Lake County officials say they plan to reopen six sandbag sites Tuesday morning from 7 a.m. until noon. Residents are encouraged to bring their own shovels and be ready to fill their own bags.Sandbag sites• East Lake Sports Complex 24809 Wallick Rd. Sorrento, FL 32776• North Lake Regional Park 40730 Roger Giles Rd. Umatilla, FL 32784• Pear Gateway Park 26791 US Hwy 27 Leesburg, FL 34748• Hickory Point Recreation Complex 27315 State Road 19 Tavares, FL 32778• Fire Station 1023023 FL-40, Astor, FL 32102• Frank Brown Sports Complex 1245 E. Pine Avenue Mount Dora, FLThe sandbag locations will close at noon.
After hours of relentless rain Sunday night, people in Mount Dora are still drying out and cleaning up from unexpected flooding that swept through parts of Lake County.
Davis Watkins and Nicole Vallee live beside Wolf Creek and spent much of Monday repairing damage in their yard.
“That thing rose about four feet and came about 20 feet of our house. And we have never ever ever seen it that high before,” Watkins said.
Video captured the surging creek water washing away dirt from beneath their home. Fortunately, it never made it inside.
“Typically, the creek is a little bit lower than it is right now — about a foot,” Vallee said. “But last night it rose all the way to these stakes and proceeded to flood my neighbor’s backyard.”
Across the Mount Dora area, sandbags lined driveways and streets. Some homeowners were still pumping out standing water.
“Yesterday was something biblical — something we’ve never seen before,” said Michael Siegel, another Mount Dora resident. “Mt. Dora is 180 feet above sea level, and I live on top of a hill. I still got water in my house.”
Watkins and Vallee visited the city’s sandbag site Monday, shoveling sand to fill gaps and prepare for the next round of storms.
“We’ve got sand to cover up some holes here,” Watkins said while working.
Sunday’s flooding washed away the couple’s stacked wood pile and even carried off some of their patio furniture.
“The furniture went down the stream, and one of the chairs is in a tree right there,” Vallee said.
When asked if she’d try to retrieve it from the tree, she replied, “Game on — I don’t know, but I’ll do it.”
Lake County officials say they plan to reopen six sandbag sites Tuesday morning from 7 a.m. until noon. Residents are encouraged to bring their own shovels and be ready to fill their own bags.
Sandbag sites
• East Lake Sports Complex 24809 Wallick Rd. Sorrento, FL 32776
• North Lake Regional Park 40730 Roger Giles Rd. Umatilla, FL 32784
• Pear Gateway Park 26791 US Hwy 27 Leesburg, FL 34748
• Hickory Point Recreation Complex 27315 State Road 19 Tavares, FL 32778
• Fire Station 1023023 FL-40, Astor, FL 32102
• Frank Brown Sports Complex 1245 E. Pine Avenue Mount Dora, FL
The sandbag locations will close at noon.
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