At the Center Beach neighborhood of Vero Beach, the roads are flooded and barely passable. Front yards are littered with debris some of the homes are damaged. And the majestic oak trees that provided a canopy to provide shade from the afternoon sun, are virtually gone.
“I would say it’s almost like Armageddon,” Megan Raasvelt whose home was damaged a block away.
“A mess,” added 80-year-old Tom Howard describing his Cypress Avenue neighborhood, just two blocks from the beach.
On Wednesday, he was with his wife in their living room when he saw flying debris hit his front window.
“It actually put me in a state of shock, I kind of froze up,” says Mr. Howard, who is now coping with no electricity.
WPTV Reporter Dave Bohman saw a postal worker who looked like she’s on an obstacle course just to deliver the mail to the Howards while roofers were at his home restoring tiles that were blown off.
But, Tom Howard feels lucky, knowing others lost their lives in Wednesday’s tornado outbreak.