Boris and Inna Bryskin have lived on Ocean Street since 2005.
And over those years, the street has lived up to its name, often flooding during summer storms.
Depending on how big of a storm hits, they can easily be trapped inside their own home because of rising waters.
An engineer by trade, Bryskin shows his backyard.
More specifically, the ditch dug on the other side of his backyard, a ditch he said drains nowhere.
Flagler County has a plan to improve storm water removal in the Mala Compra Basin.
It was set to start on phase one, until Governor Rick Scott vetoed $600,000 of state funds earmarked for the project, essentially grinding the process to a halt for now.
Craig Coffey, Flagler County's administrator said “it was a strange budget year. We were a little disappointed, I'd say not necessarily surprised, but disappointed.”
Local leaders are confident they have a good plan. It's just a matter of tweaking the message sent to Tallahassee.
Flagler County Commission Chairman Frank Meeker, who was on the road to Jacksonville, sent a statement noting that the county will “… demonstrate the regional benefits from our efforts and that should get us past a veto next year.”
As the county administrator puts it, this is more than just easing local flooding.
“It's all about treating storm water. The storm water ultimately is going to wind up somewhere and that's the intra-coastal and you also have septic tanks in this area so you have a combination of a lot of environmental factors that can really impact the intra-coastal,” he said.
That's a point, Coffey said clearly wasn't made to the governor's staff.