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Longbeach Village resident Fred Kagi can recall the flooding his home endured during Tropical Storm Eta like it was yesterday.
“When it came in, all the walls, four feet up all the way around, every room, the entire house,” the lifelong Floridian said of the November 2020 storm that caught coastal residents off-guard not with high winds or torrential rains, but devastating tidal surge from the gulf and Sarasota Bay. “All these doors had to be replaced, so basically the whole house was redone because of the toxic-level seawater coming in over the land.”
Fred Kagi demonstrates about how high the stormwater runoff was inside his home during Tropical Storm Eta.