ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Corazon is a cinema and cafe on the corner of Grenada Street and DeSoto Place in the heart of downtown St. Augustine's historic theater district.
"The flooding is just ridiculous," said owner Karla Wagner.
She has owned the business for a year and has put more than $100,000 into it, including purchasing sandbags, but constant flooding is washing her business away.
"We have a tremendous amount of water. when the cars come by it's tidal waves coming through. We have put up boards, sandbags," said Wagner.
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Wednesday 1-foot-high water forced her to close.
"I had a special party that was supposed to be coming in at 6 p.m. with 40 people. They had to cancel it. They could not get their cars driven down the roads."
Drainage issues are nothing new to St. Augustine. Mayor Nancy Shaver has said before in order to improve the drainage problems, the city needs a water pump station. But it's tough to do that with a tight budget of $50 million.
"We need to start having a vision of what we can do and not, 'Oh this is the way it's been for 450 years,'" said Wagner.