"The process does take time, we always ask people to be patient, we really do encourage their patience and appreciate their patience," Love said.

Communities with private roads must execute a Right of Entry agreement that will allow Miami-Dade County or its contractors to enter communities with private roads and begin debris removal.

This process costs about $130 million, but they will eventually be reimbursed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

In the next two or three weeks, the county says they will begin a second pass back through the entire county to collect whatever is left over.