LAKELAND, Fla. — For people living at Citrus Center Colony, flooding during heavy rainfall is a common occurrence.
“Even if it’s not a hurricane — if it’s just rain, and it rains hard here. I mean, when the sky opens up, it opens up here in Florida. This will flood,” resident Butch Scheffer said, pointing at his driveway.
Scheffer says the flooding during Hurricane Milton was the worst he’s seen in the 55+ community over the past four years. The water was so high, he and his neighbors had to evacuate…