machine, dryer, water heaters. the heavy stuff. >> here in the living room -- >> reporter: ronny coleman lost everything and gained something. >> i keep stopping and thinking i'm alive. you know, everything else, the rest of my life, if i have to fight cancer or whatever, it's going to be a piece of cake to what i went through. >> reporter: i watched with sherry hathaway as the city truck loaded her stuff for the dump. is that your life going away? >> yes. sure is. children's lives. our lives. >> reporter: for her 24-year-old daughter jany, it was too much. >> it's hard to watch it. i mean, this is everything we own. everything. >> everything they own. a lot of folks as you know, we've been talking about last night, do not have insurance. there's a house behind you, appears to be sitting on the road. what's the story there? >> reporter: it's the house on hummingbird drive. and i don't mean that as a joke.