30 water rescues so far in McCaysville area

Breaking news, massive flooding leading to evacuations in North Georgia. Overnight storms turned roads into rivers and washed out bridges. In fact, just take a look at this flooded intersection. This is in downtown McKaysville. The water nearly covering that street sign. Yeah, it is. Mark Teichner is live in hard-hit McKaysville. Joining us with the latest from there. Mark, good morning. Yeah, I'm going to step out. You can see they're just sending out another rescue boat to go and get some folks who are stranded inside their home. These numbers are being shouted out to us of the street numbers of where they're going to try to rescue people here in McKaysville. So far, 30 people have already been rescued from their homes, and those folks have been taken to dry land. We've been told by the police chief that some of the water level is reaching above the rooftops on some of these homes. You heard Alex mention 16 feet, the water level, and they say that it just came up kind of out of nowhere. It started at about 10 o'clock, things were okay, and then it got really basically out of control during the early morning hours. And since then, they've been been on emergency situation. And as we mentioned, this is just one of the areas that has seen We've seen flooding up here, although this is certainly the worst area that has been hit. Let's show you some other video that we shot. I shot on the way up here as we were driving up. First is going to be a bridge that was washed out on Bushy Head Road. That was up against Bordetown Road. That Bordetown Road area got hit pretty hard, and there were some folks who were stranded in their particular community because this bridge had washed out. It didn't hear of any emergencies in that. In that particular location, but then when you went on Bordetown Road, there was an actual mudslide that was blocking some of the road and it got so bad that they had to actually close off the road. And I was trying to get my way up here and as I was, I took Lucius Road and I ended up coming upon a flooded area where there's folks who are stranded inside their home. The road was completely impassable as you can imagine and I had to drive really almost all the way back. Basically, to L.A.J. to get myself back up here, finally to McKaysville, and it is a mess up here. Obviously, this is something where they are trying to do what they can to try to save these folks. We did talk with the man who was rescued, as well as the police chief, about this entire operation. I got dressed and went outside. The water was this deep, and I couldn't get my truck out, so I had to leave my truck. Then the sheriff's deputies knocked on the front door and said, you need to evacuate now. And he said, you probably have to wade through water, but by the time my wife got dressed and I got the animals, they had to send a boat for us. We're actively trying to water rescue people, but we still got several people trapped in homes that we're trying to get to, and the water keeps rising, so just bear with us as much as you can, and please say a prayer for them and their families. How many... Well, the good news is Bella, as well as Kiki the cat, Bella the dog, got out okay. We can't tell you, the chief says the water is so high that he had one of his cruisers that was literally just floating down the street here in downtown McCaysville. This is something that these folks are going to be dealing with for quite some time. We, of course, are going to stay on top of it, and we'll have another report for you coming up. At 6:30, but for now, that's the latest from here at the North Georgia, North Carolina state line in McCaysville. I'm Mark Teichner for Good Day Atlanta. Back to you guys. Yeah, and certainly we've seen rescue crews from surrounding counties helping out as well. An all hands on deck situation up in that area. Mark, thank you for that. And last hour, we watched a swift boat rescue.