Baker County residents along St. Marys River prepare for potential flooding from Ian

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Residents living along the St. Marys River in Baker County are accustomed to flooding during heavy rain events, and they’re preparing this week for Ian.

We talked to a woman at the time who had to jet ski to her home after the storm hit because part of Steel Bridge Road was under water.

“All the neighbors have boats. They’re always giving rides if people have to ride back home,” Allen said.“Some of the houses are still on the ground and a lot of the houses are on stilts, but like my neighbor’s house that was there, it’s not there now, he’d open sliding glass doors and the water would run right through the doors,” Allen said.

Darien Combs says his old home was destroyed in Hurricane Irma. Now he and his family are evacuating to Georgia for this storm. “A tree fell on it it, busted the window out and all of that, we had boards over the window and it slammed through the boards,” Combs said.

 

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