Tom Kunz's family has owned its Old Edgemere Drive property for 90 years. In all that time, he says they've never seen flooding the way it's hitting now.
"I mean two out of the last three years, come on. Something's gotta happen here."
Tom spent his Wednesday priming the nozzle of the hose draining his front law. Running all morning and into the afternoon, it struggled to clear the three inches of water that had washed beyond the Kunz's newly built elevated storm wall that.
The wall rose after the historic 2017 flooding. It did the job of keeping the house dry, but remaining debris and front yard flooding continued to water the entire neighborhood near Lowden Point Road.
"You feel like you're just gonna get the momentum," Tom's wife, Linda said. "And then, whoop, you get knocked off your feet again."
From Sodus to Kendall, homeowners continued to push, dump, bail and pump their way out of the latest widespread flooding along Lake Ontario. It's driven Cerri Cupples to the edge of being an Edgemere Drive resident.
"I guess it's just waiting to see what other destruction inside and outside my home is going to occur," said Cupples, who watched the $35,000 she spent on storm cleanup from two years ago wash away with Tuesday's flooding.
"After 17 years," Cupples said, "I'm considering letting my home go into foreclosure."
"I feel bad for them," Greece supervisor Bill Reilich said about overwhelmed homeowners. "Hopefully, there'll be some assistance for them, either from the state or federal government."
Reilich said he's asked Congressmen Joe Morelle and Chris Collins and to secure funding that may be made available to the International Joint Commission to assist property owners impacted by this week's flooding.
The IJC has no budget to distribute such aid, according to Reilich.
The flooding comes as residents watched IJC commissioners tour the impacted areas, and heard its leaders say there is no plan to change Plan 2014, an operations model the agency has used to regulate Lake Ontario levels that some have claimed led to record-high lake levels that has caused flooding the last three springs.
Property owners also swept their basements and mopped their breezeways knowing that town reassessments are leading to five-digit hikes in lakeshore tax bills. Residents are still invited to take part in the town's reassessment process, including the challenging of assessments.
As for homeowners frustrated by the latest flooding, town leaders are working to find residents relief, but know some may has to reassess their options as shoreline property owners.
"We'd like people to do as much as they can," Reilich said. "But if they can no longer stand this, they'll have to do what they have to do."
Tom Kunz expects his cleanup to be completed by week's end.
"My house is dry. My garage is dry. 360 out of 365 days it's glorious down here," said Kunz. "So I'm not going to leave. No way."