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Call For Action: "I can't get to my house"

By Nicole Papageorge

FORT MYERS BEACH - The more rain we get, the more flooding problems for one street on Fort Myers Beach. One homeowner tells call for action her street gets flooded so badly, she can barely reach her house.

"This is an ongoing problem all summer, every summer," says homeowner Virginia Dixon.

The drain on Miramar Street, where Dixon lives, is clogged with sand leaving feet of standing water behind.

"I can't get to my house," says Dixon.

Dixon has owned her home for about 40 years. She she says it's been an ongoing problem that got worse after Hurricane Charley. Dixon says the town allowed the neighboring complex to pave their parking lot on a slope.

"So when it rains, we get all their run off and when they drain their spas we get that too," says Dixon.

Dixon has complained to the town before.

"I call and nobody does anything," says Dixon.

The town tells us crews remove sand from the drains twice a year. Public officials admit it will take a major overhauling of the drainage system to fix this problem permanently and say they're working on a plan. But, Dixon worries that in the meantime someone could get hurt.

"Tourists walk down this streets," says Dixon. "All kinds of things accumulate in that before it drains off."

She hopes the problem will be fixed soon so the road home is one traveled more, than less.

"We pay high taxes here," says Dixon. "We should be allowed to get to our property, whether it rains or it doesn't."
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