Folks in Caryville are awaiting nervously as the flooding Choctawahatchee river inches closer to their community.
With more rainfall expected this weekend, the town of Caryville is taking proactive measures.

This sign is a reminder of how bad flooding can get in the small town of Caryville.
Gene Forehand, the Caryville Fire Chief remembers it well.
"The floods in the 90's really caught their attention real good"
This community has seen its fair share of flooding.
"This Riverstop was completely underwater, the whole store", claims Forehand.
Call it “déjà vu”.
Roger Hagen with the Emergency Operations Center blames the recent winter storms.
"We've had over eight inches of rain the first fourteen days of December, the most we've had in any one month all year."
And being next to the Chochtawahatchee River doesn't help.
Right now the river has elevated to almost thirteen and a half feet, and the Riverstop on Highway 90 remembers the devastation in the past, hoping they won't be taking another trip down memory lane.
Becky Graham, an employee at the Riverstop, remembers the establishment barely made it through the ordeal unscathed.
"It came to the sidewalk and stopped. Go outside and look, we have the dirt and the sandbags and all that stuff so now we're just waiting"
The Riverstop says they won't be caught off guard again against Choctawahatchee River. They're filling sand bags as early as tomorrow to prepare for the threatening flood waters."
"The next day, day and half we'll see roads in the Caryville area start to go under water, above all, if you don't feel safe, you're probably not safe. And if you need to contact our office give us a call" says Hagen.
Two more inches of rain is expected into the weekend.
That number to the Washington County EOC is 638-6203