A Brevard County restaurant remains flooded nearly two weeks after Hurricane Ian dumped several feet of water on the area.

The flooding turned into a nightmare. After record flooding turned the lake view business turned into part of the lake.

We took a boat across Salt Lake, into Loughman Lake, through what is normally dry marshland. It’s now under several feet of water.

With Hatbill road still underwater, right now after historic flooding, it’s the only way to get to Loughman Lakeside Restaurant and Bar.

“We’ve poured so much into it in the past year, we only opened this year, and put so much work into redoing this place,” says owner Jason Reichman, who gets anxious each time he comes here. “And here we are stuck.”

The entire property is flooded. As the storm approached, Reichman realized quickly they were in trouble.

“When was I really worried, the next day, realizing we can’t sustain this amount of water, the sandbags we put around the doors will not hold, this is just too much water, we are going to be in the lake,” Reichman tells us.

All the buildings, including the restaurant, have several feet of water inside. The dining area and bar are a soupy mess. Things are floating in the water. The front porch is underwater.

The restaurant has been a Mims staple for decades. Reichman was trying to renovate it for a new generation. Now all they can do is wait for the floodwaters to recede.

“Can’t do anything until this water goes down, and we assess what we have left,” he says.

Reichman says he’s hoping FEMA will declare Brevard County a disaster area so they can get help. But so far, that hasn’t happened.