A year after water from Spring Creek rushed into Loyd Johnson’s home, the floorboards still bend and bow like rails on a roller coaster track.
The bedroom and kitchen in his East Ridge house have been repaired, but the bathroom, living room and dining room still need flooring work. And that doesn’t count the plumbing and supports under the house that need attention.
“I thought I’d have it done by now,” Johnson said Wednesday, propped against a piece of furniture and staring despondently at the ridges and valleys in his floorboards.
Residents, businesses and governments in East Ridge and in Trion, Ga., as well as Catoosa and Walker counties in Georgia all hoped cleanup up from last September’s floods would be done by now, but some problems linger.
Heavy rains beginning Sept. 19, 2009, forced a swollen Chattooga River over levees in Trion, flooding City Hall and the board of education building and drowning a teenager.