GEORGETOWN COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) – The National Guard continues ferrying people to and from flooded areas in Georgetown County, there are currently five designated pick up times at three locations that run daily through October 14th.
Not everyone was able to make it to the scheduled slots, however; and News13 met some people who took getting back home into their own hands.
“Man I didn’t know what was going to come up out of the water, I was a little nervous but you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do,” said Zach Hollande moments after crossing flood waters in his bare feet for the second time on Monday.
“I had a hotel in Georgetown and I came down here cause I got to get some more clothes and stuff,” he said.
Hollande goes back to class at Carver’s Bay on Tuesday and needed school supplies from his house, but he missed the ferry and couldn’t wait for the next one, so he decided, “I’m going to walk across there.”
That’s exactly what he did, leaving his friends on the otherside, “I guess they’re too scared to walk through the water.”
Hollande says he wouldn’t have made the trip but it was important because, “this is my last homecoming and I want to be part of the team, it’s just crazy you know. Because this is how you have to remember it.”
Hollande is out of the hotel and is now staying with friends, until he can return home, “I’ve got what I need for a couple days at least, so we’ll see. We’ll see what happens next”
Many flooded roads in Georgetown County will remain impassable for the coming days.
Transportation will be made available for residents traveling to and from homes in the Dunbar and Oatland communities Oct. 12-14 to assist with traveling to work and other locations not reachable by car due to floodwaters.
A vehicle able to traverse floodwaters will stop at the following locations at 7 a.m., 9 a.m., noon, 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. to pick up and drop off residents:
• Browns Ferry Elementary School, 7292 Browns Ferry Road, Georgetown • Oatland Park, 1251 Oatland Rd., Georgetown • Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church, 2011 Dunbar Rd., Georgetown
Residents must provide their own transportation from their homes to the stops and anyother locations they wish to reach once they reach Browns Ferry Elementary School and have access to the highway system.
