NEW CASTLE, Ind. (WISH) — Recovery from historic flooding in Central Indiana is getting even more difficult for some New Castle residents who are being asked to vacate from their apartment units within two weeks.

Connie Porter, who has lived in New Castle for all 75 of her years, and in the Foster’s Landing apartment complex for five, said the flooding ruined her apartment unit, all her belongings in it, and also destroyed her car.

“I was so happy,” she said. “I had a new car. I had a home which I really cared for, and all of a sudden, everything is gone… I’m 75 years old and I lost everything. My home, my car, washer and dryer, I had my couch, my chairs, my end tables. I’ve lost everything.”

Porter says the apartment complex sent her and other tenants a letter asking them to leave their units by September 8, so they can be repaired.

The letter said “You will be able to return to your apartment” but that “repairs will take seven months to complete.”

“It wouldn’t be so bad, I guess, losing your home, if you at least had a vehicle, (but) I don’t have anything,” Porter said. “It makes me want to climb in a hole somewhere and give up.”

Porter said she’s now sleeping on a futon at her mother’s place, and actively searching for a new place, but has not been able to find vacancies anywhere in the city.

“I’m trying my best to find somewhere else,” she said “And evidently FEMA hasn’t even come to Indiana yet, so I don’t know what we’re supposed to to do.”

Porter said if she could talk to the decision makers at Foster’s Landing, she would tell them, “Please get more crews in here and get the apartments done, so we can come back.”

WISH-TV reached out to the company that owns Foster’s Landing, but as of Wednesday evening, had not heard back.