EDGEWATER, Fla. — With hurricane season coming to an end Saturday, many residents in Volusia County say they are still recovering from the impacts left by the storms. 

What You Need To Know

  • The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to Nov. 30

  • With hurricane season coming to an end Saturday, many residents in Volusia County say they are still recovering from the impacts left by the storms

  • Edgewater resident Lisa Delaney is still dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, from two years ago

  • This time around with Hurricanes Helene and Milton, one of her biggest concerns was a ditch in front of her home, which gets flooded

Edgewater resident Lisa Delaney is still dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, from two years ago.

This time around with Hurricanes Helene and Milton, one of her biggest concerns was a ditch in front of her home, which gets flooded.

“There’s clearly a problem," she said. "You can see there’s a problem."

She and her neighbor have been asking the city to clean the ditches in front of their homes to prevent flooding, which they have seen this hurricane season.

“I have been trying to get the city to clean this ditch out," Delaney said. "You can see the ground’s dropped like 6 inches off and they’ve been promising my neighbor that they would do it. They’ve never done it."

Delaney said when it rains, water pools in front of their properties. 

“They came out and behind you dug out my neighbor, the next neighbor down," she said. "But I mean, you can see with your eyes there are high spots in here. We’ve sent the city pictures of when the water is starting to build up. You can see we’re just kind of pools."

As she worries about this problem, she is still catching up on repairs from prior storms.

“Today I have somebody in there doing drywall, finishing up drywall work from Ian,” Delaney said.

As she walks inside her home, she still has most of her belongings off the ground in the living room, waiting until the end of hurricane season. 

“I’ve lived like this for two years. This is my normal," she said. "I don’t like it, but like I said, I think I’m going to everything in here that’s had to have been put up high. I think I’m going to turn my office into a storage area."

Spectrum News Dual Certified Meteorologist Maureen McCann says many Floridians like Delaney will definitely remember this 2024 hurricane season.

“For anyone in Florida, this is going to go down the record books with Debbie, Helene and Milton being the ones that impacted us the most," McCann said. "We had three land falling hurricanes here in Florida."

She said that overall, it was a very active season, as predicted.

“The 2024 season was busy — 18 named storms, 11 hurricanes, five of which became major hurricanes," McCann said. "So that turned out to be an above average season. It did validate the NOAA forecast, too, which was predicting an above average season."

She explained that although hurricane season might be coming to a close, it is now dry season where Central Florida can get cold fronts that can also bring some rain.

“Our rain this time of the year typically isn’t from our daily sea breeze thunderstorms like we get in the summer months," McCann said. "Instead, we get the passage of cold fronts. Those can still produce severe weather. They can still produce heavy rain. But it’s not the level of rain like we get during our rainy season."

Delaney said she is concerned any rain event might flood her property if the city doesn’t take action.  

The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to Nov. 30.