home of edith and he had that help pa. she s 88 and he s 93 and has parkinson s and diabetes. the water is happening the front door of their trailer. the alarm of their flooded car is buzzing. do you want us to call the fire department or the police department? no, no, no. we re pine. we re doing good. she said she knew they d probably have flooding. difficulties taking care of my husband. we have everything here at home. he has all of his medications and everything. and a question we often ask of disaster victims like edith and ed, do they want to continue to live in a place so devastated? we love it here. we ve been here 47 years. this is home. and brian joins us now. brian, we re so glad you found them. they re doing okay. strong, but they want to stick this out. is the water in their home or is
yeah. it s devastating. we were right on the ocean front there and so there s nothing left. it s completely gone. and we re hoping, just like stacy said, we re hoping to get the families back in here and back to normal living conditions and we re hoping fema will help us out doing that as soon as possible because this was a residential neighborhood, see breeze mobile home park, not a tourist destination. these are year-rounders. yes. absolutely. and what s so striking to me today, i had total strangers come up and offer us water and offer us gasoline. that s sort of the spirit of the keys, right, and that gives hope that the rebuilding will come together. we actually brought pizza to somebody that lives across the street. one place, yeah. so we had just enough gas for one more trip and a lot of people have been on facebook that live here. they kept asking us again and we were able to get in. just please tell us what s left, take a picture and like i said,
downtown jacksonville. when we walked up upon hogan street here at 11:00 a.m. this morning, the waur was three blocks inland and it continued to rise throughout the day. as bad it looks then three blocks inland, we were told it was going to get worse. 2:00 p.m., that s when the tooitd was at its highest here is when the water was at its highest through these floods. five and a half feet today above what you would typically see at high tide in jacksonville. at times we saw white kams in those waters as they flooded the streets of downtown. i had my rain jacket on all day, but i don t think i ever felt rainfall from the sky. it was the wind whipping up on this tunnel that it created on these downtown streets to then smack us with the water as it kept coming. you could really understand the power of the storm surge throughout this day as we felt incredibly powerful gusts of wind. so now, yes, some of these waters have receded, but as the mayor told us, don t be fooled when you see some of
fema is now in partnership with the state because of the presidential order and they re going to be pushing 200 truckloads of each of those products out probably every day or if several days. so the food and the water is coming. but you re right, the faster we get stores up and running, then i don t need to provide free food and water. you can go to the local stores. yeah. makes a huge difference. appreciate that. up next, more from the florida keys. another survivor shares hiss story riding out the storm at a marina there. we ll be right back. you know who likes to be in control? this guy. check it out! self-appendectomy! oh, that s really attached. that s why i rent from national. where i get the control to choose any car in the aisle i want, not some car they choose for me. which makes me one smooth operator. ah! still a little tender. (vo) go national. go like a pro.
would be hurricane category 3 storm surge and a tropical storm. and so we are just dealing with that now. the policemen, firemen, contractors are here, neighbors are helping neighbors just doing everything that we can, first things first, make sure our people are safe. and obviously it differs in different areas. do you have a sense of how deep the water is in some areas? oh, gosh. there are areas that i was in today that you can t drive a major public rescue vehicle into. i mean, with major tires, high up off of the ground. you ve got to take the big truck in. you ve got to drop the boat in that the rescue guys take, and you ve got to go down the road, get these people in a boat, get them out and get them back to a truck and drive them out and then get them to a shelter or to someone s home that can take care of them. it s deep accident it s serious, and it s dangerous. and the threat is still with us.