“Everything’s gone. I lost everything,” Benny Olivo said Sunday morning after wading through water about waist-deep to inspect his home at 1003 N. Main Ave., just east of the Boys and Girls Club Lake.
Benny and his wife Monica and their children had evacuated when rising water from the lake started coming into their home Saturday night.
Others on all sides of the lake were doing the same thing.
With rainfall runoff from the surrounding area pouring into the lake, Mayor Josh Stevens estimated the water level in the lake rose at one point to some 18-20 feet above normal.
The lake’s boundaries eventually ...