For sale beautiful spacious grand Prairie home
the owner wants out she says she's exhausted
I think enough is enough so I don't want to go
through it again
okay so if I can find a buyer I'm ready to sell
The Trinity River sent 13 inches of water into
Vesta Smart's home.
She says fighting floods for the past three
years has been stressful.
She didn't want to get upset on camera.
Very scary, frightening when it comes in the
middle of the night like it did this time.
Out of all of her things, Mrs. Smart says she
was only able to save a few.
She was able to hold on to a couple of sofas
and a sewing machine.
This morning, she had a garage sale.
anything that was left was picked up and tossed
out Mrs Smart estimates the home is worth more
than 90 000 she's asking for 65 I'm tired of
rebuilding tired of it I want to go somewhere
where there's higher ground no more floods she
says it's difficult to sell a place that's been
home for 27 years in Dallas Renee Weber and
friends clean up the mess left by
four feet of water she's buying this home in
Rochester Park everybody grew up
in this house so we would hate to just you know
walk away and leave it really
although I know you know we've been flooded out
and flooded out many times
Weber feels a nearby levee will be the answer
the city hopes to have it ready
by March. But in Grand Prairie, Vesta Smart
says she and her neighbors have been waiting
years for that kind of flood control. She isn't
waiting any longer. Barry Sims, Texas News 5.