JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Update: After trapping dozens of Marietta residents in their neighborhood, the one roadway closed due to extensive storm damage is repaired enough for people to get in and out.
Repair crews are still on the scene, with traffic cones and yellow caution tape surrounding the road that was a massive hole over the weekend.
The road damage was on Harrison Avenue in Marietta which connects to Alexa Lane, a dead end.
One neighbor first noticed the road damage around 5:30 a.m. Sunday and called it in, but residents were still left with no way out into late Sunday.
"I went outside, took my children to go to the store to get some food, and I saw police tape and a police officer standing in the road," said Robin Walker, a resident who lives on Alexa Lane.
Walker said the next thing she saw was a gaping hole cutting straight through the road she takes every day.
The temporary fix does mean that the dozens of residents living in the 30 homes off Alexa Lane are no longer cut off from the rest of Jacksonville
However, some residents driving across the fixed road have gotten out of their vehicles to inspect it before driving across.
Walker said despite the road being accessible again, now she's worried about the stability of her one road home.
Over the weekend, crews were replacing pipes and filling in the storm-made abyss with truckloads of dirt.
Now, a project manager told First Coast News that it could take a few months to give the road a permanent fix, while the city contracts a project to build a solid solution.
Walker says neighbors were working together to make sure everyone's needs were met while they were disconnected from the city.
“We’ve already pulled ourselves together and put our heads together to see what we can do to support one another. We have children, babies, families back here who need food and attention, so we need to be able to get in and out safely," Walker said.
One resident couldn't wait for the road to reopen on Monday, because he had tickets to the Jaguars' Sunday Night Football game against the Baltimore Ravens.
He said he didn't want to miss out on the game, so he found a way around the hole on foot and got a ride to the stadium.