McCaysville plea seeks urgent flood supplies

We've been monitoring North Georgia and the aftermath of last week's historic flooding. The cleanup is in McKaysville, and it is far from over, and officials are issuing an urgent plea for essential supplies. Let's get out to Fox 5 Storm Team meteorologist Alex Forbes live on the ground there with more. Alex? Yeah, Tom, that's right. In fact, we're at one of the donation pickup sites. So we've seen McKaysville residents coming through receiving bottles of water, the cleaning supplies, bottled bleach, things like that through the day today as we are in day five now, concluding day five of the cleanup. Earlier this afternoon, the Blairsville Union County Chamber of Commerce paid Fannin County a visit. Through the last couple of days, they've been collecting donations there at the community center and brought over what they had this afternoon. We caught up. With them as they made the delivery beginning last week we got a truck from Mountaintop in our parking lot and offered to anybody who wanted to drop off donations to put it in the truck. This is actually our second load that we brought. We brought another load Saturday, but we've had cleaning supplies. We've had gloves. We've had baby formula. We've got some some pet food in here. We've got some shovels and flat bladed shovels right now, but basically everything that they need to clean up after this. Clorox, whatnot, so they've come through with a little bit of everything. So what they need the most, cleaning supplies, paper towels, bottled bleach, heavy-duty work gloves, and heavy-duty trash bags. If you're unable to visit McKaysville yourself, you can make a monetary donation to the Fannin County Chamber of Commerce. And if you're unable to do that either, you can always volunteer. We've had a whole crew of people here throughout the last several days, and that will, of course, continue. Tom and Courtney, while we were here this afternoon, I saw somebody pull up with a lot of donations in the car from Fulton County. So yes, coming from far and wide up here across. Across northern Georgia, the curfew tonight does kick in at 6 p.m., so tomorrow would be the best time to bring any donations if you're able to help out the people in far northern Georgia. Live in McKaysville, Alex Forbes, Fox 5 News. Yeah, so good to see the generosity in action out there. Alex, thanks.