While the rain is gone, some Nassau County residents are dealing with standing water. However, many say they are relying on themselves to fix the problems.
Action News Jax Annette Gutierrez spoke with neighbors on Clyde Higginbotham Road, who said they couldn’t sleep Wednesday night because the water kept rising. The water they were pumping wasn’t enough.
“Even after the rain stopped, it kept rising to dangerous levels and there’s nothing we can do about it,” Yulee resident Skyler Swisher said.
Skyler Swisher and his wife, Anna, have lived here since the 90s. They say they’ve never seen anything like this. They have chest deep water in their backyard, and they’ve even found fish swimming there.
“It’s terrifying, our house is getting ready to flood away,” Anna Swisher said. “We have been up for literally days without going to bed, digging ditches, moving water, using pumps.”
They’re not the only ones. Just a few miles down on Old Stevens Lane, Edmond Mcinturff’s backyard is practically a lake.