JUST IN: A boil water alert issued Thursday for hundreds of residents in the Ken Knight Drive area of Jacksonville’s Northside has been lifted, JEA says.
JEA said that large tree roots shifted underground during the storm, resulting in a 6-inch water main pump bursting, leading to additional floodwaters spilling into peoples’ homes.
Residents who had several feet of water in their homes Thursday were doing their best to clean up, with assistance from the American Red Cross.Melon Mayweather’s house, and dozens of others, still hadn’t completely dried out from the rising waters that were created by Nicole. Mayweather said she wishes she had purchased flood insurance.″It impacted me real bad,” Mayweather said. “...All my clothes — the water came through the washer and dryer, all my clothes are soaking wet.
Smith and other neighbors said they’d also like the city to consider installing a pump system similar to ones that pump floodwaters out of the San Marco neighborhood. Damaged furniture must be replaced and damage to any part of the structure must be fixed. No one knows that better than homeowner Shane Lee. He was renovating a home before the flooding, hoping to have it ready for the next renter.“It’s been a headache dealing with this water rising and the damage to the side of the brick. I must replace all that. Tracking all the water in and out is going to be one heck of a cleanup,” Lee said.
“Seems like they should be able to do something with it,” renter Leroy Bradley told us. “Engineers or somebody to come out and figure out what to do about that.”
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