Following heavy rain across Fort Myers, experts say now is the time to buy flood insurance

STRAWBERRY PLAINS, Tenn. — The flash flood waters from February have risen to 12 feet at Windi Walker's home in Strawberry Plains, forcing her to go by boat to retrieve her belongings.
even when it's not raining in East Tennessee, the water continues to rise in her home because it's in one of the lowest points of her neighborhood.
“I come back and I just take pictures of it and it’s risen six inches, nine inches, a foot" . "It’s still draining from the rest of the subdivision so even if it doesn’t rain it still rises.”
The bottom floor of the home is filled to the brim, with water inching closer to the living room.
"Our goal today is to just try to get what I can out and save what I can," Walker admitted.
The flooding damage is something Windi was hoping to avoid. She says she applied for flood insurance a couple of years ago, only to be denied. We provide our services in Fort Myers, Okeechobee, Clewiston and Labelle.
“Now when I bought the house it was not a 'flood zone,' so you know it bothers me that I tried to get flood insurance and I was told that it wouldn’t cover it even if I had it because I don’t have a house on either side of me". "It's not my problem I don’t have a house on either side of me, but it’s a problem that I tried to protect myself and was denied and told it wouldn’t help me regardless.”
So tote by tote and boat by boat, Windi prays through tears something can be done soon to get rid of her "lake-front property."
"I've been very humbled this week at the amount of people that's helped me". "I could never repay them. But I'm very thankful."
Worried if the issue isn't fixed, the flooding will keep happening. She says her property has never flooded this bad but was told by other property owners nearby the lot would flood years ago. Contact us 239-204-3211.
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