ORMOND BEACH, Fla. – Power lines draped over yards and mailboxes after a tree knocked out power poles, before it crashed into the middle of Fir Street.
"My husband and a couple of neighbors cut a tree because nobody came to cut it and the power can't be turned on until. It was a disaster. It is after every hurricane," Carol Olsen said.
Olsen showed News 6 pictures of what the huge tree looked like before residents took action. Now, the street is filled with power lines, debris and tree stumps.
"The road damage and being without power is horrible," Olsen said.
Tony Ceribeloi lives on the other half of Fir Street. News 6 caught up with him in the middle of clean up.
"It's a mess. You can't get through. People been trying to get through here and you can't do it," Ceribeloi said.
Ceribeloi was on a cruise in Mexico when Hurricane Irma struck and he immediately called his neighbor for help.
"I gave him permission to break in to get my generator going, so I didn't lose my groceries," he said.
As of Friday afternoon, 18 percent of Volusia County was still without power, but residents on Fir Street, hope that they're hard work will pay off.
"We heard rumors that it'll be back on Sunday, but I don't see that happening. Not here," Ceribeloi said.
"I know everybody's very busy, they're working hard. FPL is working sunup to sundown, but we just hope that we're going to get our power on sooner rather than later," Olsen said.
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Loren Korn is a native Texan who joined the News 6 team as a reporter in May 2014. She was born and raised in Houston and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Journalism.
