Cleanup continues Monday in McCaysville

Now residents, businesses in the city of McKaysville and the North Georgia mountains continue to recover from severe flooding last week. Water distribution, cleanup are in full force as the city looks to bounce back. And Fox 5's Ray Urena is live in McKaysville with how recovery efforts are going. Good afternoon to you, Ray. Good afternoon, Caitlin. And right now we are actually right outside of the Twisted Tomato Pizza Restaurant, which is one of the last restaurants right next to the Toccoa River. You can see that right now crews that are here and volunteers as well as employees, they're in the process of taking this restaurant down to the studs. Jim, if we look over here, you can see some wallpaper, some drywall, insulation down here. You have some countertops and some plumbing up there. And all of the stuff that they're taking out has lot of mud and debris out here. You can see there's some more plumbing that they have just taken out. So this is just one of the cleanup processes that's happening in McKaysville with some of these restaurants following last week's severe flooding, historic flooding at that is that now restaurants like Twisted Tomato are having to take down their restaurant to the studs. But the police chief did post on Facebook earlier. Earlier, a couple of hours ago, stating that the water in the city has been restored, but it is not safe to consume as of yet or drink. He also asked people to conserve as much water as possible to only use water to flush toilets. And just outside of downtown, the McKaysville Church of God continued to give out the essentials to residents. Since Friday, lead pastor Mike Cole says they've given away nearly two dozen pallets of water and don't plan to give away more. Planned on stopping anytime soon. Take a listen. Still no water in the church. No water in a lot of houses. So it's not just on the river that's affected. The whole community is. So yesterday we gave away 700 barbecue sandwiches. So the whole church came out. We smoked and got, you know, fed the community. So we're trying to do what we can, you know, and it's been a great blessing. And as we come back out live, this is one of the disaster relief groups that has responded to McKaysville that we can see, that we have seen. This is the American Red Cross's disaster relief van. They're parked up next to the... It's comforting to see so many helpers, Ray. Thank you.