Oct 26, 2024
One Palm Harbor family is gutting the first floor of their home, destroyed by flood waters after Hurricane Milton.Cali Gignacs childhood home is not in a flood zone or near any large bodies of water, yet more than two feet of water entered her parents townhome and destroy everything just a month after her mother died.We havent had chance to sort her mementos. We havent had a chance to grief her or anything. And now its like, everything is garbage.Her mother died from breast cancer month. Her mothers final days were spent in hospice in Gignacs home in Virginia, where both she and her sister live. The family buried her their and sat shiva for a week.Her father came home just days before Milton hit. They convinced him to evacuate to Virginia.What happened here was never on anybodys mind whatsoever. It was just an excuse to get him to come back, she explained.The most they expected was a power outage.And then the next morning we woke up to this phone in hysterics from my moms neighbor and really close friend.That neighbor was wading in waist-high water and showed them the water around her mothers car and inside the window of their family home.Now she, her father, sister and husband are working to cut out the moldy walls with no help from their insurance yet.And you can see, everybody around us has all their stuff out because we had two feet of water and sewage water. It smells terrible.She still doesnt know the source of the flooding other than water came from the intersection of county road 95 and west lake roadA week later when she flew back with her father, the water still had not been pumped out Now they are trying to save what they can, sometimes stopping to take a snapshot of notes or photos that they find. But as tears come, they quickly move on knowing they have so much to do.Our photo albums are just like melting.With no answers on what caused the flood, the family doesnt know if it will even be safe to rebuild.He should just be grieving my mom. And now instead of thinking about that and figuring out life, hes figuring out where he is going to live.
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