BARTOW, Florida. – Roads and houses along the Seward Lake basin in Polk County are still underwater two weeks later Hurricane Milton caused devastating damage.

The Southwest Florida Water Management District and the county have a plan to remove all standing water, but homeowners say help hasn’t arrived yet.

“My house sank. I mean, we lost everything,” said Tracy Boyett, a resident of the Oakmont neighborhood.

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Boyett’s treasured home on Oakmont Lane is now infested with mold and flooded with irreplaceable items lost forever.

“I go in there and I have a nervous breakdown. All I do is go in there and cry,” Boyett said. “Honestly, I wish someone would set this place on fire because I’m out of sight, out of mind. I have to see this every day now.”

His Oakmont neighborhood was drowned by Lake Seward just after Hurricane Milton.

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“We have a disabled vet that lives here,” said Eric Hedrick, another resident. “We have people getting older and you never know when there might be an emergency and there’s no way to get emergency vehicles here.”

Hedrick says they’ve had a drainage problem for some time, but Hurricane Milton made it worse. He said the county would come and fix the problem.

“They had a study done that gave them several options on how to solve the problem; one of them being to do nothing and I think that’s the route they’re taking,” Hedrick said .

On Friday, Oct. 25, SWFWMD and Polk County installed the piping to release water from the lake to Banana Lake and then ultimately to Hancock Lake, but Hedrick says it doesn’t appear the pump is hooked up yet.

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He would like to see a permanent pipeline that would go down to the Banana Lake discharge basin.

“We fought this county on this. That this was going to happen and there was going to be flooding,” Boyett said.

Boyett is still waiting for help from FEMA, the Red Cross and local politicians, and believes she has received only empty promises.

“Get that water out of here,” Boyett said.

There is a Polk County Commission meeting on Tuesday, November 5 that these property owners say they will attend to voice their concerns.

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