After two days of widespread flooding across Brevard County, much of the attention has focused on Palm Bay. But tips to the News 6 Neighborhood Network have been coming in from people in other communities who say they’re dealing with the same problems.

On Tuesday, News 6 followed two of those tips, first to Lamplighter Village in the Melbourne area and then about 40 minutes south to Barefoot Bay.

The first tip concerned severe flooding at Lamplighter Village, which Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey identified as one of the hardest-hit communities.

News 6 reporter Alex Cook attempted to reach the neighborhood from Dow Road, but floodwaters covered the roadway. An abandoned car sat in the water, and nearby retention ponds contained other vehicles.

Cook parked his news car on dry ground and continued on foot, documenting the conditions with his iPhone’s front and rear cameras simultaneously.

Despite walking through the water, he was unable to reach Lamplighter Village from that direction.

The next Neighborhood Network tip took him even farther south.

A woman named Nancy O’Hara had contacted News 6 from Barefoot Bay, near the southern tip of Brevard County. She said floodwaters surrounded her home and warned that Cook would likely be unable to drive to her.

She was right.

Cook again parked his vehicle and continued on foot, walking through flooded streets where the water approached his knees. Along the way, he documented submerged yards, stranded vehicles and water reaching homes.

Eventually, he made it to O’Hara’s front door.

O’Hara, who has lived in Barefoot Bay since 1989, showed Cook how high the water had risen the previous day. It had reached her front door, stopping just short of entering her home.

“I was just hoping it wouldn’t come in the house. That’s where I was scared,” O’Hara said.

She said the rising water was particularly frightening because she uses oxygen at home and would have difficulty evacuating.

The water was powerful enough to move heavy items around her property.

“My freezer was floating,” she said.

Just down the street, another homeowner, Bernie Silveria, said the flooding has created an additional problem: drivers traveling too fast through the water.

Silveria said the vehicles create wakes that crash against nearby homes, damaging the skirting around his house.

“Every time you go by and a wave hits my house, it’s beating up on my skirting,” Silveria said.

He urged drivers to slow down and be considerate of people living along the flooded streets.

But O’Hara’s biggest concern wasn’t actually her own home.

She said she decided to call News 6 because of her neighbor, Doreen, a nurse who was supposed to report to work Tuesday afternoon.

According to O’Hara, Doreen was told to come to work despite the flooded streets preventing her from safely driving out of the neighborhood. O’Hara said her neighbor was worried about losing her job.

“That’s the reason I decided to call you. Because I’m like, poor Doreen. That’s not right,” O’Hara said.

After walking through the flooded streets himself, Cook had a message for the nurse’s employers.

“So, Doreen’s bosses: You saw what it looks like out there. I had to walk up here. I couldn’t drive through,” Cook said.

O’Hara said she has the supplies she needs and plans to remain at home until the water recedes.

But she also wanted people to understand that the flooding extends well beyond the communities receiving the most attention.

“I feel like we’re the orphans down here because they hardly ever give us any kind of coverage,” she said.

She said watching coverage of flooding in Palm Bay, Melbourne and West Melbourne made her wonder why Barefoot Bay wasn’t getting the same attention.

Her call to the News 6 Neighborhood Network helped change that.

News 6 continues to follow tips from people across Central Florida dealing with flooding and other problems in their neighborhoods.