McCaysville flood smashed storefront facade

We continue our team coverage tonight with Fox News' Kevin Stewart. He is live tonight in Cooper Hill, Tennessee. Kevin, how are the businesses up there handling the historic flooding? Working hard trying to clean up. We're right on the Georgia-Tennessee line, about 50 yards away from the Toccoa River. And I want to show you something, how strong Mother Nature is. This building, you can see the water smashed out this glass. And separated the facade of this building. This water, this flood water, was over six feet tall. I'm six foot two, and you can see water lines and how it just separated and pushed all this stuff out. Downtown McKaysville, Georgia. Now it's a tourism community. And it's Twin City, Copper Hill, Tennessee. It's just a really small, cute little town that people enjoy and love. Everywhere you look, along the swollen banks of the Toccoa River, mud, debris... Water oozing from the cracks in this building and the small businesses trying to clean up. I have no words. Wondering how they will survive. I had put a coffee shop back there. Or if they will survive. We didn't have insurance. We weren't able to apply for it. College student and young entrepreneur Diana Lyle looks at what's left of her new coffee shop tucked in her mom's Mexican restaurant. She calls the river a blessing and a curse. Because, you know, when you want to relax, you go sit by the river, but... You don't expect this to happen to your business. 30 years in business for McKaysville Drug and Guns. The river flooded earlier this year and he made it out okay. Not so much this time. How you gonna get out get through this now? Day at a time. McKaysville Mayor Terry Arp says flooding here sadly is nothing new. It's flooded three times this year. Nothing like this though. And then there was the flood of 1990. Communities bounced back with investment and emerged as a mountain tourist spot. Putting in all those places, there was nowhere to eat down here. Nowhere. And now we're kind of right back to where we were again. But we're going to come back. We are. And you can hear the construction, the beeping going on as they clean up and look to build back. I want to make a note of this. This was a coffee shop. The business just shut down just a week ago. I had a chance to talk to the landlord. He says they're still trying to sell this building. He says he does have insurance. So this is the story. We'll continue to follow throughout the day and evening. But for now, we're live in Cooper Hill, Tennessee. Kevin Stewart, Fox 5 News. Yeah, your heart goes out to those folks who really put everything they have into those shops. And we wish them well on their road to recovery. Kevin, thanks.