TYLER, TEXAS (KYTX) -- It's been a rough couple of days for Eleanor Mullen, who lives in Ocean View, Delaware, two miles from the beach.
"We had expected the worst. We had taken everything off our decks and porches," Mullen said.
She says the marina across the street from her house flooded, keeping her from driving on the main road yesterday. But fortunately, her house was safe.
"We have ditches. When water comes up like that, it fills the ditches first," Mullen said. She also didn't lose power like many people on the other side of town. Law enforcement tried to get her to evacuate, but she chose to stay.
"I wasn't about to leave my house, let's just put it that way," Mullen said.
That didn't sit well with her daughter, who lives in Tyler.
"It's uncomfortable. I wished she had gone up to my sisters," Lisa Castle said.
Her sister lives in a safer area further inland. She says since her mom is 79 and a widow, she's worried about her safety.
"When I saw that the main part of the storm was aimed right at the Delaware coast in Ocean City, then I started to really get nervous because I thought you can't really do anything from Texas to help," Castle said.
Castle has made sure to get constant updates from her mom and sister, who is there now to help deal with the aftermath.
