hey doug, how are you? quinn moved to this waterfront neighborhood in 2011. >> nice to see you again. >> sullivan: he'd always dreamed of living on the water. >> yeah, this is it. >> sullivan: holy cow. >> this is what's left of it, at least. my house was over this way. my front door would have been right over here. it was nothing fancy. it was a comfortable, cozy, middle-class home. soon as i came here, i just was... it definitely spoke to my heart that this was home. >> sullivan: what remained from that home was still on his lot. so this is the stuff that stayed dry? >> yeah. >> sullivan: and it all fits into a box, huh? this is everything. this is all you've got. >> you get weird with stuff after the storm, because everything in my house was destroyed. so the process of just pushing all of my possessions out of the front door into a big pile on the lawn was really difficult. >> sullivan: he had no idea that the really difficult part was still ahead. >> i just assumed there's gonna be a small period where life