Posted on 09/21/2009 5:10:30 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
ATLANTA — Floodwaters that swept across the rain-soaked Southeast killed at least three people and left five others missing Monday, including a Georgia toddler who disappeared after a mobile home was split apart by a swollen creek.
Three Georgia motorists died when their vehicles were swept off Atlanta-area roads, and some major highways were submerged. Officials urged motorists to stay off the roads as a new line of storms threatened the area.
Fast-moving water also swept away a Tennessee man who went swimming in an overflowing ditch on a dare.
Crews in northwest Georgia worked furiously to shore up a levee that had been breached and was in danger of failing along the Chattooga River. Hundreds were evacuated in the small town of Trion, and inmate crews were piling sandbags along the levee wall.
"It's a grave situation for us," said Lamar Canada, Chattooga County's emergency management director.
Forecasters issued flood alerts for parts of Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, Kentucky and Georgia as more rain fell after days of storms that have saturated the ground. As many as 20 inches had fallen in three days in parts of the Atlanta area.
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...That George Bush is up to no good again....
According to the radio t was 23' a little while ago and not at peak yet.
And not a word from Obama...
The Paces Ferry bridge is still above water, Hermi's Bridge is too. But there's 12 feet of water in the parking lot at Canoe, and the restaurant itself is under water halfway up the front door . . . . I've NEVER seen that before! The Lovett football field is flooded up to the crossbars on the goalposts. Woodland Brook is under at the Vinings Indian Mounds, and Polo Drive is blocked at the gate - I've never seen those areas flooded in 15 years.
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I put the phones on forward, packed a bag full of work, and bugged out at 3:30 when I saw the next big band of showers coming.
Nobody called but a co-worker urging me to go ahead and leave (she had already left because she had further to go).
And just think, about this time last year they were in crisis mode because Lake Lanier was critically low. If push came to shove I’d rather be in this situation but it’s pretty messy out there. We’re going to sleep in the front bedroom tonight because the ground is so soft and wet we’re afraid one of those giant pines out back could topple.
My thouts exactly: Bush’s Fault!
Drove through some of the worst rain yesterday from Forsyth County down to GSU. Driving in the rain makes me nervous, but yesterday I was scared.
Not raining where I am now, but Mr. Melissa_in_ga has dealt with severe run-off in the backyard all day. School is closed tomorrow because the buses hydroplane too much in the standing water.
Prayers to all, especially the Carrollton family who lost their little boy in flood waters today.
AP is now reporting six dead.
Cripes. I wasn’t thinking about the pine trees. Lots of large ones that lean west (toward the house) with shallow root systems from the drought.
Where is that?
Is this spagetti junction?????
Hold mah beer.
“We’re going to sleep in the front bedroom tonight because the ground is so soft and wet we’re afraid one of those giant pines out back could topple.”
Same here and the irony is we had a tree service out early last week to talk about and schedule them to take out some of the large trees close to the house - but they can’t start because of all the rain.
The Cochise subdivision (across the river from Lovett) used to flood occasionally, and Peachtree Creek used to be a regular occurrence.
I expect what used to be Robinson’s Tropical Garden is well under at this point.
But the folks in Alabama and Florida have been wanting more water from the Chattahoochie, looks like they are going to get it.
Not trying to make light of what is a tragedy for some folks, but we had that kind of rain in Dallas a week ago, and there isn’t really anywhere for it to run to on the flat prairie. So a lot of folks got a little wet, rather than a few folks getting submerged.
I have been trying to figure out where that shot was taken.
I stole it from a slideshow on wsb tv’s web site
and it did not identify the location.
I am almost sure it is not spaghetti junction.
Seriously, don't cross that one again at high water. Go back down Northside to Collier, right to Howell Mill, go south on Howell Mill, turn right on Chattachoochee Avenue, and pick up Atlanta Road and cross there at the sewer plant. It's a brand new bridge, just built.
I was downtown, so I went out I-20 to I-285 and went around the west side. No problems except it was raining pitchforks and tire irons as I went out I-20.
I am going to wait to daylight to go in to work tomorrow, though, because when I crossed the Chattahoochee on 285 the water was up within 10-15 feet of the bridge. If it gets any higher I'm not crossing -- and it's forecast to continue to rise until tomorrow night. The bridge was probably not designed for that sort of high volume scouring.
I was born here in the 50s, and I've never seen the river this high, even with Opal.
I do not think it is spaghetti junction, but am not sure where it is.
Two local ‘streams’ in the John’s Creek/Alpharetta were threatening flooding of a few surface roads.
too bad the signs are not clear enough to read.
Looking closely at the signs, it might be the junction of 75 at 285 south of the airport. There’s a sign for 85 and what looks like MLK Jr. Blvd.
One of my coworkers had a house catch fire in his neighborhood this morning. The firetruck couldn’t get into the neighborhood. The firemen waded across the river, used to be road, carrying their hoses. They then piled into Ed’s truck for a ride to the fire. I’ll see if I can get the pictures tomorrow.
Howell Mill was a parking lot and Northside was under at least 4’. I wasn’t too worried since some brave soul in a minivan made it in front of me.
And just when it starts to get cool enough for Indian Pass oysters. At least Lake Lanier is full but so sad for so many. Where is Geraldo and Kanye when you need them?
vob
I should have used “are” and not “is”. Flame away.
vob
If you were south of the bridge, then Northside should have been o.k. except maybe at the creek at Bitsy Grant - but you could cut through to Howell Mill on McKinley or one of those other "president" streets there, or go further south and cut through on Bellemeade. And if Howell Mill was backed up, you can cut down Collier (as long as it's not flooded under 75) and cross DeFoor, go through the industrial park and come out on Chattahoochee Industrial further down (I used to live just off DeFoor back in the 80s).
But you're home safe now and that's what counts.
“I should have used are and not is. Flame away”
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“At least Lake Lanier are full”
would be grammatically incorrect.
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Anywho, it are still 5 feet low even after all of this.
:-)
The water’s pretty high at the US 41 bridge, as well, and that one has to be about 70 years old. There was a very large tree that looked like it snagged just upstream from the bridge, aimed at it like a spear.
But apparently full of drifting boats since the owners didn't lengthen the lines.
There was a tree down on Paces Mill, so we crossed at 41 southbound. Water was fairly high, the park was submerged, and folks were out walking up and down the bridge staring at the river!!! That bridge is pretty sound, built in the late 60s iirc. I’ve had an up close and personal view of the bridge abutments from underneath, while kayaking, and they are large and sturdy.
Blackberries come in handy sometimes :-)
North Georgia? Wow!!!
This happens in New Orleans every time it rains hard\m but then it’s a sponge in water anyway. That is freaky Atlanta, no?
Swift move...No pun intended.
Ironically, that was the punchline all weekend long among the adults while the scout troop was camping this weekend in ... Tennessee. No, no one went for a swim in a ditch.
Those people have no business living below sea level. What? Oh, never mind...
Seriously, that looks just like I-10 at the western edge of Orleans Parish, just a bit more than four years ago.
Those pictures are of Houston, not Atlanta.
Late 60s sounds about right for the Paces Ferry/Vinings Road bridge. The US 41 bridge is a LOT older. I’m thinking 1940s, but it could be 50s. Some of the I-75 bridge probably dates to the 1970s - I think they just kept adding to it, although they may have ripped out the old section when I wasn’t looking.
I can’t remember if we got out at 285 or at 41 during the WQXI raft race era.
I’m building an ark.
Strange thing is Lake Lanier doesn’t look as if it has gone up a bit. (We like to keep track of the levels. Corp of Engineers has screwed up a few times. “It was the gauge, Yeah! That’s the ticket. They weren’t callibrated”)
I think the left hand sign says "I-20 - Augusta - Birmingham".
The middle sign says "ML King Jr Dr" - and the one on the right says "Jesse Hill Dr".
That's Freedom Parkway running under the bridge in the middle distance, middle left (that's Boulevard), and the large surface street is Renaissance Parkway.
There are a couple of websites that list the signage on interstates, I'll go see if I can get more info.
The US 41 bridge isn’t as new as I thought it was: It celebrates it’s 75th anniversary next year:
Route: U.S. 41
Place: Atlanta
Facility Carried: US 41
Feature Intersected: CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVER
Location: IN N FULTON
Bridge Material and Design: Steel continuous Stringer/Multi-beam or Girder
Sufficiency Rating: 47.7 %
Structural Evaluation: Somewhat better than minimum adequacy to tolerate being left in place as is
Structure Length: 156.9 meters
Year Built: 1935
NBI Structure Number: 000000012100150
This bridge is Functionally Obsolete
http://nationalbridges.com/nbi_result.php
Oh, ok, thanks. Still, North Georgia flooding can’t be a very common occurrence, is it? Poor people. Having been flooded a few times, I feel for them.
Flood waters almost surround the Peachtree Park Apartments on Peachtree Park Drive NE in Atlanta. The City of Atlanta took several aerial shots on Monday.
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