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Clay County Homes Destroyed in Flooding

 Ken Amaro  Taren Reed     Created: 8/17/2009 7:22:57 PM    Updated: 8/17/2009 7:30:47 PM
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MIDDLEBURG, FL -- Every room in Megan Rinc's Clay County home has water damage.

"We were using towels and blankets to keep the water out but we couldn't stop it," says Rinc.

Rinc and her husband spent the weekend pulling up the water soaked carpet and they were not the only ones.

Dewana Westmoreland's home was also flooded.

"This has never happened before,"says Westmoreland.

So while they were cleaning up, they were also looking for answers from their county commissioners.

"My heart goes out to the homeowners, I don't want anyone home to be flooded, I'm not making excuses but I don't think anyone could have taken that amount of rain Friday afternoon," says Commissioner Ronnie Robinson.

Rinc and Westmoreland live in Robinson's District. The commissioner says he has had a lot of calls looking for answers.

"I'm not an engineer, but I've driven CR 220 in the rain and there's hasn't been any flooding, but we will know what the problem is before it is over," says Robinson.

Robinson says the problem is poor drainage. Commissioner Doug Conkey says he has had flooding in his district and he believes the problem is poor drainage.

"We need to send a Tiger team to clean out the ditches that have sediments built up and causing the poor drainage," says Conkey.

The homeowners just want to be sure that it doesn't happen again, anytime soon.

Since it was rising water, homeowner's insurance does not cover the loss caused by rising flood waters.

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