Jamie Curtis’ Zephyrhills home is gutted, but he still wanted to recognize Veterans Day.
“Just the right thing to do. I appreciate the sacrifice they made a lot more than what I’m going through,” said Curtis.
Curtis and his family have been through a lot. We were here last month, about two weeks after Hurricane Milton, when their house and several others in the Silver Oaks community were still under water.
Just about everything inside was ruined.
“It was bad. It was sickening. I don’t know if I had a word for it to be honest with you,” Curtis said.
Within the last couple of weeks, the water from the Withlacoochee River finally receded. However, the golf course is still flooded as pumps work to drain it. Curtis wasn’t sure he’d ever be able to live in his house again.
His main concern was the contamination from that flooding.
“I did not want to our family coming back in and a few months later be deathly sick,” Curtis said.
But Josh Thompson, owner of 360 Restoration & Construction, is working to get the Curtis family back into their home.