Flash flooding washes out road, threatens homes in Gilmer County

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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