Ray and Linda Zeliznik are enjoying spending time with their family in Pennsylvania, but they really want to go home.

They just can’t get back to their house in Leland, North Carolina. Officials this morning said this morning that tropical storm Florence has left the roads impassable.

“Conditions continue to be unsafe,” the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office said on Facebook. “I can tell you that right now the county is like an island with all the flooding going on.”

The evacuation order was lifted so that outside resources can get in to render aid.

But the sheriff’s office stressed, “We are still advising folks to stay put and not try to come back into the county.”

The Zelizniks, formerly of Saylorsburg, left their house last Tuesday. Evacuation was not mandatory in their neighborhood, but they packed up their beagle and as much as they could to come to their son Todd’s home in Kunkletown.

“We said, ‘What if we stay and we have no power. What are we going to do?’ ”

In fact they did lose electricity for several days, and lost anything left in their refrigerator.

They left at 4:30 a.m. to avoid traffic. They had clear sailing, but said the rest stops were filthy. “Loads of people must have been traveling through,” Linda said.

They built their house four years ago in Compass Pointe Thomas development, located about an hour away from North Myrtle Beach.

They weathered Hurricane Matthew. “That was just 65 mph winds and we lost power for a day,” Linda said.

Neighbors tell them their house is fine. However, the transformers were under water, causing issues for power restoration. They just got word at 9 p.m. Monday that power was restored.

Not everyone has power. “I’m concerned for friends who refused to leave. It’s hot with no air conditioning, very humid,” Linda said.

Some people have whole house generators, but those will soon run out. Gasoline might not be available for the generators.

People are riding around the development to charge their cellphones.

“What’s outside, I don’t know,” she said. People aren’t going out. Travel is not advised and there is a curfew at sundown. The only people allowed into the development are repairmen.

Seven miles from her house, the Cape Fear River is supposed to crest Wednesday. Linda said she’s hoping they’ll have a better report then and can start their journey home. Until then, they are enjoying their time with their 2-month-old grandson Colton.