LAKELAND, Fla. (WFLA) — “Every floor in the house is gone. That water came in so hard it blew my floors out,” said James Lennon, who lives in Bonny Shores mobile home park. “I just put the plywood so I wouldn’t fall through.”
Lennon has lakefront property but for the weeks after Hurricane Milton, it was in-the-lake property .
The water receded from residential areas around Lake Bonny in Lakeland this week, which allowed Lennon to get back inside.
Several rooms and outdoor areas have water damage.
“This is a bedroom and the floors are totally gone and it went up on the walls and stuff,” he said.
Lennon, like many people who have spoken to News Channel 8, does not have flood insurance because their neighborhood is not considered a flood zone.
“FEMA’s been a nightmare. Took me three times to fill it out,” he said.
Across the street, parts of Lisa Houston’s home, including her husband’s “man cave,” filled with water.
Houston is in the same predicament as Lennon.
“It’s just a matter of waiting on FEMA and seeing if we can get some help because we don’t have flood insurance,” she said.