Heavy rain in Mount Dora Sunday led to washouts and erosion behind a retirement community.

Mount Dora's Mayor said Monday that two 40-foot ravines opened up behind Waterman Village. He said close to 20 homes were evacuated, and some of the residents were not able to return home.

Carl Kusky and his wife Bonnie were two of them.

"They said you've got to evacuate," Bonnie Oliver Kusky said of a knock they got at their door after midnight. "We said OK.' And a fireman said to me, 'Well, look out your backyard and you'll know what we're dealing with.'"

Carl Kusky said, "We went from a nice little quiet backyard to the Grand Canyon. It just washed away,"

You can see in video from Chopper 2 the ravines butting right up to some folks' backyards.

Carl Kusky said his home is one of them.

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