“Guys I know SEC fans are built different but this guy just blew up a float to go rescue his friend who is trapped in a house,” Mastrangelo posted on X. “They’re going to the Georgia-Alabama game, and he doesn’t want his friend to miss it.” It took about 30 minutes, but the rescue was a success.

Using a small, inflatable water raft, a young man braved the flood water to rescue his friend on the other side of a cul-de-sac. The young man told Channel 2 Sports Reporter Alison Mastrangelo that he had to save his friend immediately, so they could get to the UGA vs Alabama game in Tuscaloosa on Saturday.

WSB’s Alison Mastrangelo told the trilogy of a Georgia football fan trying to get his friend from a rain engulfed area so they could get to Saturday’s Georgia-Alabama game in Tuscaloosa. Check it out as the buddy takes a float that can handle 410 pounds to pick up his friend.

Over the last 24 hours, the state of Georgia and its neighbors have been lashed by Hurricane Helene—a Category 4 hurricane that made landfall in rural Florida Thursday, killing 21 in four states. As catastrophic as Helene and its ensuing flash flooding have been,

It just means more. Of course much of the southeast is dealing with the effects of Hurricane Helene, after the Category 4 storm made landfall last night in Florida and devastated parts of Florida, Georgia and even up into North Carolina.