
As many as 65 homes have major damage and are unfit for habitation right now. Those displaced residents are staying with family, friends and neighbors. Four or five of those are completely destroyed – the official number is still unknown.
Port Orange Council members have declared a state of emergency for the area, although Tanya Dilardi, Fire and Rescue PIO for Port Orange, said she does not expect a state or federal emergency declaration.
Early estimates of the cost of damage are about $2.6 million. Port Orange is just south of Daytona Beach, in Volusia County. The county has faced much weather related damage in the last five years – including seven Presidential declarations in that time….
City Hall in Port Orange, Florida, shot by Ebyabe, under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
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