CLEARWATER, Fla. (WFLA) — When Hurricane Milton hit in October 2024, Oscar Valderrama was living with his family in a first-floor apartment at the Standard Apartment complex in Clearwater.
“When Milton hit us, we lost everything,” Valderrama said. “We had about eight feet of water in our unit.”
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More than 500 people had to be evacuated from the complex.
“It was scary,” Valderrama said. “It was like I was in a movie basically, a scary situation. My son is still traumatized and stuff. He’s like, are we going to flood?”…