DAPHNE — Multiple homes were flooded Sunday evening into Monday morning in the Bay View Drive area of Daphne.
Wynona McCall, who lives with her family on Nicole Place, said water was about seven inches deep in her house, and it was waist-deep at her neighbor’s home. She said the family had just returned home, and there was nothing they could do to stop the water from rushing inside.
“But when it starts coming in, it just comes,” McCall told 1819 News. “There's no stopping it. You can't put enough beach towels down. Once it reaches your foundation, it just comes in.”
“It was flowing in all the doors, the back door, the front door, the garage door,” she added.
As the family worked to remove items from the house, they realized they had lost everything. Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time the family has dealt with Mother Nature's wrath. Less than five years ago, they had to replace their roof and remodel the inside of their home after Hurricane Sally.
The McCall’s home sits below U.S. Highway 90, between U.S. 98 and Baldwin County Road 13. That area of U.S. 90 was partially washed out, causing it to be shut down. The McCall’s entire backyard was covered in sand and dirt from floodwaters that made it to the front yard and into the street.
“Now in the last five, six years they've done a lot of stuff down 90 to help with the flooding, but it's not enough clearly,” said McCall. “But the road, that area of the road, that particular spot has washed out several times with bad rains, so they're not fixing it properly.”
The flood took over a fish pond and fire pit in the backyard. McCall showed 1819 News the waterline on the fence and the damage caused to the gate.
“It was up to here, this is where the water was back here,” she explained. “All these trash cans got knocked over. We were running around here trying to pick up the trash cans. We had stuff float down the street.”
McCall made a plea for City officials to survey the damage.
“Nobody from the City has been here,” she said. “We need somebody to come by and look at this, look at that backyard where it went down.”
“I know they're back there trying to get the road open, because that's important, but they need to be looking at what it actually did," McCall added.
Thankfully, the family has flood insurance, even though the home is not in a designated floodplain.
“We keep flood insurance because the street has flooded several times, and the City is aware of it and they do need to do something about it,” she said.
Officials are still asking people to avoid flooded areas.
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