What would YOU do?
"There is no fix for the creek," Allen said.
Louis Marroquin says the buyout can't come soon enough. Marroquin and his friend Evan Salituro have been staying with other friends since their Valleycrest Drive home flooded with 19 inches of storm water.
"We're frustrated that it's taken so long. We thought we would be back or have some kind of solution by now," Marroquin said. "It would be a good thing to just move on and be able to start fresh somewhere else."
Marroquin, who said he is still making monthly mortgage payments on his vacant home, was denied a permit to repair his house because the city said the flood damage was more than 25 percent of his home value. At least 16 other homes were denied repair permits because of their extensive damage, officials have said.
Residents from the heavily damaged Willows at Shady Valley condominiums are also seeking relief.
Jennifer Fowler, her husband and their three children have been living with her parents for the past five months. The family, which had spent about $16,000 renovating their condo just before the flood, doesn't have money to move, she said.
"Now we are a burden on our parents," Fowler said. "We can't do anything until we get the buyout."
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