Bulloch residents reenter flooding battle
Nov 07, 2024
STATESBORO, Ga. (WSAV) - Dozens of families woke up to flooded neighborhoods Thursday morning, feeling some déjà vu.
"Never did we ever think that we would be flooded just a few months later again,” said Kristie Kilpatrick, a resident of Pulaski Pointe neighborhood.
Neighborhoods closest to creeks rivers and ponds were seeing the worst of flash flooding in Bulloch County.
"We've got about 8 more inches before it enters the house,” said Kilpatrick.
Talking with residents, they say that many of the people in these flooded homes had just moved back in after Tropical Storm Debby.
"It's just like we can't catch a break,” said Kilpatrick. “We were just very fortunate from all the people in North Carolina, like, I hated to even complain that we lost our man room."
"I always try to be positive but it's kind of hard when it keeps coming,” said Public Works director Dink Butler. “This has been a tough year."
Butler says there are 12 roads closed, and 60 signs are out warning of water over the roads.
"The issue becomes all of the storms combined because they've all come so close together within the last few months and we've never been able to recover from the previous storms which in turn puts us behind as far as drainage issues coming into this volume of rain,” said Butler.
He says there have been four swift water rescues made so far. He says school buses probably won't be able to get down dirt roads tomorrow. The school hasn't announced any closures - but they are working off alternate bus routes.
"Stay off the roads,” said Butler. “If you don't have to be out and about stay off the roads. It's not safe. We don't even know what all of our dirt road issues are at this point."
He says it's going to take a while to fix everything, adding that recovery from the last storm has now fallen behind.