A woman who went viral for renovating her Florida waterfront home alone while her military husband was away is now picking up the pieces after Hurricane Ian His dream home was destroyed.
“I’m thinking it’s probably a good three feet across the house,” Corey Bosco said of the water level in her Daytona Beach home, picking up the U-hall Friday to save her belongings.
“So we’re trying to get everything out there,” the mother of four told The Post. “The smell of mold is terrible already. It’s like black, I don’t even want to know what it is, covers the whole floor.”
Her family evacuated the farm house on the Halifax River Wednesday night. On Thursday afternoon a friend went to assess the damage.
“He opened the front door and he just came out,” Bosco, 38, said. “They said it was knee-high in the living room.”
A neighbor was sending him updates on the storm. “They said that at one point they saw 6- to 10-foot waves over my boat dock,” she said. “And he said it was going even up to the roof of my house.”
The Florida native decides to surprise her husband, Vinny, a special agent in the Army Reserve’s Criminal Investigation Division, who was stationed in Washington, D.C., by renovating his entire home all by himself.
she started sharing love’s hard work on him tiktok handle @eastcoastdiyand quickly gained 5.7 million followers.
His popularity on the platform enabled him to quit his job as a physical education teacher and become a full-time content creator in December 2021.
For her husband’s return on Valentine’s Day, Bosco completed a $100,000 renovation in February.
Her story was featured on “Rachael Rae“In December 2021 and again in March”The Drew Barrymore Show,
The social media star chronicled her too storm preparationLike protecting important documents like birth certificate.
Bosco, her children, and her husband — who also serves as a lieutenant at the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office and Ian’s later — are living with their mother in Debry, 30 miles inland.
“Thank God I evacuated and didn’t stay there alone, because there was nothing I could do,” she said.
She is trying to stay positive.
“Our family is safe and well, so I think we’ll build back bigger and better,” she said.