Absorbent booms still float on the surface of the now-swollen Little Lotts Creek near Georgia Highway 46 and U.S. Highway 301 South.In January, a tanker carrying 9,000 gallons of gasoline lost a third to half of its load after a crash. The driver, Ricky Byron Bryant, 56, of Moore Road in Vidalia, was charged with following too closely after his tanker slammed into a pickup truck and a “bobtail” tractor trailer, which was traveling without the trailer, on Jan. 23.Bryant was traveling north on Highway 301 South, approaching Highway 46 and Lotts Creek, when he collided with the pickup truck, driven by Sharon Furman, 28, of Church Street in Claxton. Furman was following Charles Eric Williams, 38, of Rosemary Street in Claxton, who was having mechanical issues with his bobtail tractor, Georgia State Patrol Capt. Kirk McGlamery said.Bryant’s tanker also struck Williams’ vehicle.