Governor Brian Kemp on Sunday afternoon declared a state of emergency for Chattooga and Floyd counties in northwest Georgia.

Kemp: “As we work w/ local partners to address the damage in affected communities, Marty and I are asking all Georgians to join us in praying for those impacted.”

Earlier, the National Weather Service put Chattooga County under a Flash Flood Emergency, with Floyd County also experiencing severe flooding.

Nearly a foot of rain fell across Chattooga County. Resident Gail Burts told Channel 2 Action News: “We’re actually trapped in because the road, of course, is right there. It’s a winding road, (so you’re stuck). Yeah, we are. We had, a lot of heavy rains, and we’ve had some flooding before but not like this,” Burts said.

The National Weather Service had issued a Flash Flood Emergency until late into Sunday evening for Floyd County.

On its website, the city of Summerville issued a water boiling notice “to protect the public from a potential health hazard.”

Mayor Harry Harvey said this is an emergency: “Now we have a crisis as far as the water is concerned. We have low pressure in some areas, and we have some areas where there is not any water at all. We do have a boil water advisory, and we do ask the people to follow that boil water advisory. We are doing everything that we can to take care of this. We do not know the damage. We will have an assessment beginning hopefully tomorrow if the waters recede.”

Reporting from Channel 2 Action News contributed to this story.

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