Story Published:
Sep 17, 2008 at 5:33 PM CST
Story Updated:
Sep 17, 2008 at 6:39 PM CST
In Woodford County, residents in one mobile home park pitch in to help one another prepare for flooding.
Some had homes and property that sustained damages from weekend flooding and now are bracing for the worst.
Bob and Starr Winchell have lived in Mill Point Mobile Home Park 16 years and do not have flood insurance. So, with the help of neighbors they're sandbagging their mobile home in hopes of keeping it dry.
"We're trying to keep the water from going underneath the trailer and getting in the septic tank and coming back up and ruining the floorboards in the trailer for sure," said Bob Winchell.
Next–door Richard McGuire gets all of his personal belongings off the floors.
"Yeah, I just been putting everything up, got everything food and everything up, got the generator in the house. I'll put it outside the porch if it don't get into the house in case I lose power or anything. But if it gets in the house I got to find a new place to live," said McGuire.
Heavy weekend rains caused flooding that damaged property like this fence, throughout the trailer park. And many folks are still cleaning up from that.
This area here is a camp ground typically filled with about 40 recreational vehicles. Residents say the ground began filling up with water Tuesday morning and it's still coming inland. And that's cause for big concern, especially among residents living close to the lake.
"If it gets in my trailer I'm leaving. I'm just not even coming back here. I'm taking my stuff and I'm going cause it's just too much," said Dortha Waddell.
For now they're raising their sheds, hopes and prayers in anticipation that floodwaters will not be as bad as expected.
In case of flooding, the Spring Bay Fire Station has asked the Red Cross to provide meals Thursday evening for displaced residents at fire hall number one.