TITUSVILLE, Fla. – Flooding this week is also impacting where Central Florida remembers lost loved ones.
Some worried residents are checking their family’s graves at Oaklawn Memorial Gardens where some tombstones are still submerged.
“This looks kinda bad out here,” Michael Hansen said as he drove through the cemetery Wednesday to check his mother’s gravesite.
“I was worried,” he told Titusville Community Correspondent James Sparvero. “I feel bad for these families that their loved ones are underwater.”
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With a pump continuing to remove water, most of the cemetery is dry now, except for this lowest-lying area.
The cemetery said it thinks the water won’t damage the graves.
Mayor Andrew Connors asked the city to come up with a new stormwater master plan at Tuesday night’s city council meeting.
“While it was something we could not predict, I still do not want to see it happen again in the city of Titusville,” Connors said.
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When Sparvero asked the mayor at the Red Cross shelter downtown to respond to those who think the flooding was even worse because of overdevelopment or poor infrastructure, Connors said 15 inches of rain doesn’t normally fall in just 12 hours.
A few days later, the worst of the flooding that remains could be in neighborhoods off North Singleton Avenue.
Underwater streets like Carnegie Street, Crescent Drive, and Parkland Street still looked like they were cut off from the rest of town Wednesday.
Sondra Rovillo said she’d never seen her neighborhood flooded so bad in 36 years of living there.She parked her car and walked instead of driving through water like one driver Wednesday who did so as his car was smoking.
“I feel bad for the people who literally cannot get out, like this,” Rovillo said.
Council members supported Mayor Connors’ proposal to make a new stormwater master plan.So, city staff can now start working on that.