All weekend, seniors living at the Cape Canaveral Mobile Estates were digging trenches and trying to get ready for whatever impacts the tropical system off the coast of Florida could bring to the Space Coast. Neighbors who live at the manufactured home park deal with flooding constantly, even just during regular thunderstorms, so the property manager is trying something new. They have a permanent pump, hoses going into a back canal and deeper ditches going into this week’s storm. They’re frustrated with the city because they’ve been dealing with flooding for years and think more needs to be done with street drainage and back canal maintenance to stop the issue from happening in the first place. Show more
Cape Canaveral residents prepping for storm impacts

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