Mamaroneck
residents are calling for officials to act as they continue to deal with severe
flooding concerns after Ida.
Nearly a week
after Ida's remnants slammed the Hudson Valley, Jim Brigante's backyard and
sidewalk on Fenimore Road in Mamaroneck is still littered with the personal
belongings of his daughter who lives in his basement and is on dialysis.
"I had 3 feet of water in my backyard,” he says. “She lost all her comic books...she lost
everything."
Brigante says
another storm blew through Mamaroneck in 2007 and caused some problems, but it
was nothing compared to the devastation unleashed by Ida.
“I've seen water where it's at the
top of my hedges, here in the front…but it never went in the house,” he says.
Shana Gliksman,
who moved to the village 9 years ago, says her basement also
flooded after Ida.
"All of a sudden, the garage door pushed
open, and it was like an ocean of mud and sticks and just nastiness,”
she says.
Neighbors say both state and local politicians
have been promising to fix the chronic flooding issue in Mamaroneck for
decades, but nothing ever gets done.
On Friday, Gov.
Kathy Hochul toured the area along with New York's U.S. senators and
Westchester County Executive George Latimer,
who promised action.
However,
resident Dolores Brigante says she’s heard promises before but hasn’t seen any
action.
"They solve nothing. They do a lot of talking,
and a lot of promising, nothing has changed...we're here 40 years,” she
says.
Neighbors say they
are looking for a permanent solution to a chronic flooding problem.
The Brigante family says the storm has left them
with about $40,000 in damages.