SOCASTEE, SC (WBTW) – Nearly everything that Cheri Cardoza-Young owns is sitting in her front yard in piles after her home flooded from Hurricane Florence, and she says because she lives on a private road, she has no help cleaning it up.
Horry County started picking up storm and flood debris on the county-maintained roads in the unincorporated areas on Monday. This does not include privately-owned roads, like Cardoza-Young’s- Saint George Lane.
According to Cardoza-Young, the longer the piles of her damaged things sit in her front yard, the more it reminds her of what she has lost.
“Everyday we just look at it, and its depressing,” Cardoza-Young said. “It saddens us. We’re trying to clean up and rebuild, and how can we when this is our front yard? Everything that we’ve worked for.”
Other neighbors on Saint George Rd. say they were depending on the county’s debris removal.
“We’re all 75-years-old or higher, and our mental health, our physical health, it’s just being impacted,” Sally Gomez, an 18-year Socastee resident said.
It’d be a lot better if this stuff was gone, so we can start to get cleaned up again,” Cardoza-Young said.
According to Horry County, it is standard that they cannot take anything from a privately-owned road, as it has to do with reimbursements from FEMA.
