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Residents Cope With Sanford Flooding

One Family Decides It's Time To Move

POSTED: 4:21 pm EDT September 5, 2008
UPDATED: 4:50 pm EDT September 5, 2008

Tropical Storm Hanna's closer brush with the coast brought more unwanted rain to vast areas in Central Florida still dealing with flooding from Tropical Storm Fay.

In Sanford, Lake Monroe has been over its banks for days.

Video: Residents Cope With Sanford Flooding

"It's the price you pay to live in paradise. We've been here 10 years, and our road’s been flooded out twice," resident Dave Parker said.

Parker bought an SUV just to get home.

After more than a decade, another resident who lives on a cul-de-sac bordering the river has brought in some help to pack up and move to higher ground.

"Stress. It's stressful. The kids, it’s inconvenient for them, and I don't let them out there, but you know, they've got their boots and I get their little boots on them and they go out and run around," resident Tricia Gallagher said.

Gallagher's husband and son were wading through smelly water last week removing dead fish from their yard.

"Well, they weren’t feeling well, and we went to the emergency room on Wednesday and they've kept my husband. He’s got a major sinus infection," Gallagher said.

She said her family plans to come back and rebuild, they just don't know when.

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