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The St. Lucie County Fire District confirms five families are displaced following Thursday's severe storm.

The fire district says about 100 homes were damaged and one person had to be transported to the hospital after falling during storm cleanup on Thursday night. That person's condition is unknown.

The worst damage was on West Caribbean in the Spanish Lakes neighborhood.

Florey Hartman lives there and her home is one of the homes that was destroyed. She had lived at that home with her late husband, Tom Hartman, for the last four years. The two had spent lots of time, money and energy renovating the home in recent years.

“I don’t understand why this had to happen," Hartman said. "I just lost my husband and I don’t know what’s going to happen to me at this point. Thank God I’ve got children and I can sleep on couches, but right now that’s it. I’m grateful my dogs weren't hurt but my husband and I spent a lot of money and we totally renovated this house to be up to today’s looks, and now it’s all gone."

Hartman was driving home from work when the storm hit on Thursday.

"The rain started pouring and I couldn’t even see to try to stay in a lane and it was like, ‘Just get me home. Please God, just get me home,’ and when I got to U.S. 1 that’s when my neighbor called me and told me that my house was gone,” Hartman said. "My heart just started pounding and I thought I was going to pass out and all I could think was that I need to get home to my dogs."

The dogs are safe but Hartman got home to find her house was destroyed.

"I just couldn’t believe it," Hartman said. "I just walked in and I was like, ‘Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Looking at everything and the water pouring down and what do I do? Where do I start? Blinds were on the floor. Holes were in the windows and it was just, you don’t know where to start."

She says now she is trying to save enough money to find a new place to live.

Her three children are currently working to salvage any items in the home that have not been ruined.

“I’m thankful for my children that they’re here to help me,” Hartman said.

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"Right now it’s just trying to get what we can out, trying to get what we can save and what has to be left behind, getting it to a storage unit and trying to get her a home to live in,” said Brian Burgess, Hartman's son who flew to South Florida from a Kentucky on Thursday night to help his mother. "You never plan or think about something like this happening, especially in Florida, maybe a Hurricane."

"It’s extremely emotional for all of us," said Bridget Austin, Hartman's daughter. "We’re really worried about her health right now. She’s very upset right now, as expected, so we’re trying to manage her emotions and make sure that she’s OK while also trying to get this done before it rains any more.

"Looking at all the hard work that our stepdad did on that house for them and the beautiful work that he did and he worked up until the day that we lost them, making that house as beautiful as he could for them and it was something that she was very proud of knowing that he was no longer here but she still had all of him around her."

Click here to access the GoFundMe page, which Hartman's coworkers have set up.

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