Sunday, September 27, 2009

Flooding in Georgia

In case you haven't heard, Georgia has gotten some rain. Make that, A LOT of rain! I honestly feel like it has rained for almost a month straight. And if I have to hear one more person say "oh but we NEED that rain"... let me correct you we, NEEDED the rain. I think we are good on the rain. Last weekend some parts of Georgia received 15inches of rain on Sunday alone which resulted in massive flooding. While I was in the hospital Miles was at our house playing Water Ranger, trying to keep things from being overtaken by the water. The water on the street our complex is off was WAIST HIGH on Miles and he had to wade through it several times because it was too deep to drive the car through. We did get some water in the house and Miles stayed up until 3:30AM and used all the towels we have (which was about 20 towels, who knew we had so many) to try to keep the water contained. We do have some damage to the wood floors which is disappointing since we worked really hard putting them in ourselves last summer and the house is on the market. We haven't decided if they are bad enough to try to replace yet. All in all we were very fortunate not the have more damage. Several houses in the complex had extensive damage including the home next to ours which has gutted half of their first floor. Here are some pictures other people have taken of the flooding.
This is the driveway to a walking trail near our house


A road destroyed by water


Atlanta is flooding! Hope everyone is okay :(
Atlanta is flooding! Hope everyone is okay :(

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