More Residents Chased From Home By Flooding in Ringgold

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     People across the state line in Georgia were just hoping to dry out Tuesday.
     But it didn't happen for a lot of them.
     Battlefield Parkway and others roads remain closed.
     And some residents were still chased from their home today in Catoosa County.
     Webb Wright continues our team coverage in Georgia.

"she said you need to know it's gonna get bad."

Kyle Johnson and his family just moved into this home on Karen Drive....not realizing the area has a flooding problem...

"I knew nothing about, didn't expect it. I didn't know that was Chickamauga Creek down there. Wanda came and got me and she said you need to know something and she started showing me Chickamauga Creek.

Other neighbors had weathered the storms before..but nothing like this....

"we've been here 30 years and we've never seen the water come this high or this fast and it was just here and you couldn't do anything with it"

In the early morning hours, everyone realized it was time to get out....

"when my neighbors knocked on my door, and I opened up the front door and saw water covering the whole backside of my house and I looked out and saw my air conditioning unit had already flipped over and being taken off."

" It was just coming faster than I 've ever seen it come and it was getting really swift and they were just trying to get people out and just get everybody to safety. The people next door the swimming pool flipped over in front of them."

For these residents, picking up the pieces may be the hardest part....

"i'm in shock, I have lived in my house since April, that's when I bought my house and looks like I'm going to have to replace everything in it."

"of course your flood insurance and stuff doesn't cover the contents to your house, it covers your house but it doesn't cover anything that you've got in it...so it's whatever you have in it you just lose."

"you just have to go through everything and throw things away and reinsulate rebuild what you can build."

In Ringgold, Webb Wright, WDEF News 12