After a weekend of severe flooding across northwest Georgia, communities in the region are banding together to help neighbors cleanup and recover.
WSB’s Sandra Parrish spent Tuesday in the town of Trion, one of many areas dealing with flood damage but also water system outages.
While stopping by a local church, that building like many others ran out of usable water. Senior pastor Brandon Bishop tells WSB Radio they will have to keep serving and distributing relief supplies. “(The town of) Menlo is going to be out of water soon. That’s another whole community, so this is going to have to continue, and there will be more people coming,” Bishop said.
More than a half dozen churches in the area are working together to feed the community, serving between 1,000 and 1,400 hudred people a day. Bishop says they’ll do their part as long as needed.
On Tuesday, Governor Brian Kemp plans to visit the hard-hit communities of northwest Georgia.