• An inflatable boat on a trailer parked outside the Live Oak subdivision in Richmond Hill, GA, Aug. 13, 2024. Volunteers are showing up with small craft to ferry people and supplies in and out of flooded areas one week after Tropical Storm Debby.
  • A resident seeks information at a command station outside the Live Oak subdivision in Richmond Hill, GA, Aug. 13, 2024. The subdivision still has several feet of water a week after Tropical Storm Debby and many residents cannot drive in or out.
  • Floodwaters reach halfway up a stop sign post in the Live Oak subdivision of Richmond Hill, GA, one week after Tropical Storm Debby. More flooding is expected and many residents are relying on boats to get in and out.
  • The Live Oak subdivision in Richmond Hill has several feet of standing floodwater one week after Tropical Storm Debby.
  • Flooding in the Live Oak subdivision, Richmond Hill, GA, Aug. 13, 2024. Residents are using boats, front-loaders, and high-clearance trucks to get in and out one week after Tropical Storm Debby.
  • A family poses at the command center outside the Live Oak subdivision in Richmond Hill, GA. Volunteers are ferrying people, sandbags, and supplies through several feet of floodwater a week after Tropical Storm Debby.
  • Floodwater is still several feet deep near First Baptist Church of Richmond Hill, GA, April 13, 2024. Flooding in the parking lot forced out an emergency staging area.
  • A portable toilet contaminates floodwaters at First Baptist Church, Richmond Hill, GA, Aug. 13, 2024. The church parking lot had been a volunteer staging ground until floodwaters rose.
  • Floodwaters lap at the steps of First Baptist Church in Richmond Hill, GA, Aug. 13, 2024, one week after Tropical Storm Debby.
  • Sewage pumping trucks tackle flooding at First Baptist Church of Richmond Hill, Aug. 13, 2024. Tropical Storm Debby flooded parts of the city a week earlier.
  • Floodwaters have not fully receded a week after Tropical Storm Debby hit Richmond Hill, GA. This yard is in the Live Oak subdivision, Aug. 13, 2024.
  • A woman stares at floodwaters near the Starbucks at Rushing Street and Ford Ave. in Richmond Hill, GA, Aug. 13, 2024. Many homes and businesses remain cut off by flooding a week after Tropical Storm Debby.
  • Flooding in the Live Oak subdivision, Richmond Hill. GA, April 13, 2024., one week after Tropical Storm Debby.
  • Two people ride a front loader through floodwaters at the Live Oaks subdivision, Richmond Hill, GA, Aug. 13, 2024.
  • Volunteers from Coastal Sitework unload sandbags at the Live Oak subdivision command center in Richmond Hill, GA, Aug. 13, 2024.
  • Port Wentworth Police arrive in Richmond Hill as flooding from Tropical Storm Debby continues around town, Aug. 13, 2024.
  • Flooding cuts off homes on Clark Street in Richmond Hill, GA, Aug. 13, 2024, one week after Tropical Storm Debby.

Liberty County reporter Robin Kemp captured these images of persistent flooding in neighboring Bryan County. Volunteers showed up with kayaks, inflatable boats, and high-clearance trucks to deliver sandbags and ferry people and supplies through the floodwaters. Some areas remain underwater a week after Tropical Storm Debby.

Robin is a reporter covering Liberty County for The Current GA. She has decades of experience at CNN, Gambit and was the founder of another nonprofit, The Clayton Crescent. Contact her at robin.kemp@thecurrentga.org Her...