JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Emma Watson, 102, has lived in the same house for more than 80 years, but now she is in the hospital because her power has been shut off and she can't go home until it's back on.

In home video sent by Watson's friends to Channel 4, Watson appears cheerful and happy.

That likely wasn't how she felt after being taken to the hospital by an ambulance this week after JEA shut her power off. Watson was found sitting in her house in the heat with no lights or water.

"I was shocked because she is 102 years old, and when I found out they turned off her electricity, I said, 'When did they do that?' and she said, 'This morning, and I just had enough time to make coffee,'" said Renay Smith, Watson's friend and neighbor.

JEA said it did not have a choice but to cut the power off. It said her bill was more than $2,000 and had not been paid in full for months. JEA said nobody knew it was a 102-year-old woman whose power was being shut off.

"We don't look at ages with accounts," JEA spokeswoman Gerri Boyce said. "The accounts are just that, they're accounts."

Watson's neighbors said after sitting in the heat, her arms and legs swelled. She was rushed to Shands Jacksonville Medical Center.

Channel 4 asked Shands if it could interview Watson on Wednesday, but the hospital said she is still sick.

Her plight is bringing some help. After JEA learned of what happened, it reviewed the $2,000 bill.

"Once we did get a call after disconnecting service, we did go back and review the account," Boyce said. "We saw there was an inordinate amount of water used, so we did adjust the account by $1,700."

Now the question remains where Watson will go when she does get better. Her friends said she won't go to a nursing home and insist on her returning to her house. But without electricity, she can't.

Watson's friends have just one wish.

"Help Miss Emma get her lights on because, like they say, there is no place like home," Smith said.

The Jacksonville Association of Firefighters first helped Watson by getting her to the hospital. The association said it's going to help her again by paying for the rest of her electric bill, so when she is released from the hospital, she'll have power and a cool home to recuperate.