BLUE RIDGE, Ga. — A swollen Cherry Log Creek in Gilmer County caused damage and threatened homes overnight.
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Channel 2’s Bryan Mims reports the creek along Joann Sisson Road, just off Highway 515, is still swift and muddy. But it’s tamer than it was at daybreak.
A wooden footbridge is mangled and coated in debris.
Up the road a few miles, in Blue Ridge, water rushing down a hillside threatened a neighborhood’s water supply.
Crews are putting scoops of rock and clay beneath Bullen Gap Road in Blue Ridge.
For hours, Kubota wheel loaders rebuilt the roadbed that floodwater sent slipping away.
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