Brevard resident hospitalized and home gutted after floods

Cleanup continues in Brevard County from last week's deadly flooding today. The county started clearing debris from people's homes, but hundreds are still picking up the pieces. Esther Bauer is live for us in Palm Bay. So Esther, some homes are totally gutted. Many several homes and that is just on this single street I'm on right now. This is Badger Drive and it's really hard to comprehend what these families are going through. But take a look for yourself lining this entire street. We have drywall furniture, people's entire lives just laying out in their front yards. Several seniors live here on this street. They lost everything and really have no idea how they are going to come up with the resources to rebuild. This is a blue collar neighborhood. She is SSI to SSI. You know what I mean? Like she doesn't have the money put up. Now a 72 year old grandma doesn't even have a home to come back to. You know we don't even have home insurance. We paid off this house and that's it. Her daughter Julie showing us around the home she grew up in. That's only a shell of memories. And everything is just demolished. No good anymore. The only thing left are the pictures on the wall. Her mom was rescued last Monday from this window by a good Samaritan in a kayak. She didn't know how to swim and water lines on her back fence are nearly five feet tall. And they couldn't get to me at all. We had to FaceTime with Julie's mom because she's been hospitalized since the flood. She got a hernia during her escape and the stress almost too much to bear. 40 years I live in the house. I never had experience like that. All my mementos, children, stuff, everything's lost. Losses line the entire street. Nearly every home on Badger Drive is gutted, with everything gone and grief still setting in. There's no words. You almost think it's not real. This is my childhood home. I've been here since I was five years old. Nothing has ever happened this way. The record-breaking flash floods also making it more of a challenge to get help. Unlike a hurricane, this was not a named storm. But Congressman Mike Herodopoulos is fighting to get FEMA on the ground as fast as possible. He says the governor just made that request with this letter. And Herodopoulos will keep pushing for more resources coming to Central Florida. Because this is an unnamed storm, we didn't have that usual situation like we would deal with in a hurricane. So we took our time. We made sure people are well informed. The only thing your community can do to try and speed up this process is to document everything. The county has online websites where you can submit photos and videos of the damage and what you are experiencing. By submitting that it will build the case that Florida needs federal help. Reporting live in Palm Bay, Esther Bauer, Fox 35 News.