NAHUNTA, Ga. - Storms and heavy rain Monday flooded and washed away roads in Brantley County, Georgia.
The Brantley County Emergency Management Agency estimated 35-40 percent of county roadways were at some point impassable Monday, either due to standing water or being washed away. Around 350 miles of road in the county are dirt.
One of those roads is Slab Branch Road in Nahunta, where First Coast News found Ronald Crews.
“If I…had a stick or something to see how deep it is, I would walk across it,” Crews said, trying to find a way to cross the washed-out road.
His elderly mother and aunt live about a mile down the road.
“I’m really concerned, I’ve got to get in there to see about them soon,” Crews said. Although he had reached the women, both in their 80’s, by phone, he worried about their health. Especially his aunt, who recently had a stroke.
“I don’t know what we would do if one of them got sick,” Crews said. “I think we’d have to have air support to get in there to them.”
While Crews is used to seeing the road flood, he said this was the worst he had seen it in a long time.
“This is not something new, but it’s something just lingering, ongoing, ongoing,” he said. “I don’t know what the answer is.”