28,000 dollars they got from fema and bought the rv instead and parked in their driveway for last six months. that s what they re living in. they re not sure what s next. a lot of people in their shoes, aren t there, people who didn t have flood insurance because frankly they didn t think they needed it. yes, in bear creek village, it s not actually in the flood zone. a lot of the neighbors in this area did not have flood insurance. they are right next the neighborhood hugs what s called the reservoir which is a large part of land operated by the army corpse of engineers meant to collect excess rain water. a lot of the neighbors here thought it was an advantage to live right next to the reservoir but what happened actually is the water backed up, it couldn t be released quickly enough that it was raining so much that the water back flooded into the neighborhood. they didn t have flood insurance. they didn t know they needed flood insurance. that s why so many of them are still in
about what they said. we re not in love with the house anymore. this house still has heart. oh, yes. but we ve lost love for this home. because this brings back so many really bad memories. tell us more about their story and where they are a year later. so gill and carla were among the hardest hits residents when we went to the neighborhood of bear creek village, houston. they were flooded twice, once in april 2016 tax day flood and then again in hurricane harvey. in between there, gill, who s a veteran, lost his job in the oil industry and carla had a stroke. and the bank began foreclosure proceedings on their home. when harvey hit and they had 4 to 5 feet of water in their house, they did get some money from fema. they did not have flood insurance. but it wasn t nearly enough to really redo their whole house. so they took about 20,000 of the