Cantonment Flooding

Florida Flooding  A Cantonment family is spending the night away from home. They'll start tomorrow cleaning up the damage from flood waters that rushed through their home Wednesday morning.
by Debbie Williams
Published: Wed, December 10, 2008 - 6:36 pm CST Last Updated: Wed, December 10, 2008 - 6:38 pm CST
Video images from a cell phone capture what it looked like in Lois Bells house after torrential rains.
"We put the kids on the bus around 7," says Douglas Clark, "and I went to take a nap and my mother-in-law came in."
"I woke him up and told him the water was coming in the house he better get up," says Clark's mother-in-law Lois Bell.
But, it was too late.
A drainage ditch acted more like a dam than a ditch. So much water backed up it actually sent about a foot of water inside Bell's home.
"We have drainage problems," says Clark. "That's the real cause of this we have water coming from the north proceeding south the ditch, it did it's job, but it wasn't enough."
Cleaning up after a flood is nothing new to Bell. "When it rains a lot like this that water come right on in the house."
Unless something is done to help the flow of water, it will probably happen again.
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