WHITE SPRINGS, Fla. – Some people in White Springs are still completely surrounded by water because of Tropical Storm Debby.
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That includes residents on Null Road.
Munroe Donoway and his grandson Bryson grabbed a canoe to go check on a newly installed fence that they found floating in the water.
Null Road was basically the Suwannee River Wednesday.
“You hear that thunder? It could get worse,” Donoway said.
People living on Null Road are built for this as most homes are on stilts, high above the water.
Everything else is well below it.
“It’s going to crest around 80 feet,” he said.
It sounds high, but Dunaway believes most of these homes are in the clear.
There are several homes in the area but neighbors and people who rent property in the area said people living there are ready. They have canoes and have gone through this before.
On Monday it looked like a river in Julie Mandy’s yard in Lake City.
“The problem is water that comes down lower Springs Road has nowhere to go,” said Mandy.
She lives where Hugh Leslie Court and Lower Springs Road meets her backyard, where she trains dogs, is in a very real sense swamped.
“That was the worst I’ve ever seen,” she said.
She hopes when repairs are being done to nearby roads, there can be some attention to the homes in her area.
“Put a bigger culvert in so that it will run down the fire line and clean out that fire line so that it will run smoothly to where it needs to go,” Mandy said.
Officials with Columbia County Emergency Management said they are having meetings and sending crews all over the county to assess roads. It will more than likely be a month’s long clean-up project.
Until the water is gone completely, and things are back to normal, people are making the most of the situation.