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- LaurenElder, on 09/23/2009, -0/+13Flood aren't that common in GA where a lot of these pics were taken. We actually just got out of a damn drought. Make up your mind mother nature!
- Slapyo, on 09/23/2009, -0/+9Don't desert's get flash floods?
- me4653j, on 09/23/2009, -0/+8Water is VERY scary. I got caught in one of these GA floods and almost drowned, plus my car is totaled. The flood I was caught in destroyed 22 schools buses, ripped up the parking lot, destroyed all the sidewalks and tore down the fences. Very frightening experience but I realize that I'm lucky to be alive. Some weren't so fortunate.
- RealmDown, on 09/23/2009, -0/+8I was the midst of it. Fortunately my basement is dry as a bone. My dad, rest his soul, hammered two important things into my head on the task of buying a house ---
1) Do NOT buy a house on a double yellow line.
2) Do NOT buy a house in a flood plane.
My neighbors had water up to the second story, and I feel for them but I'm glad listened and didn;t buy where they did. - db4dbms, on 09/23/2009, -0/+7Why did they cancel the beach bash???
- thegreenspanput, on 09/23/2009, -0/+7There's a story on AJC about that 2 yr old boy who got swept away... saddest thing you'll read for a while:
http://www.ajc.com/news/i-just-feel-worthless-1444 ... - crash331, on 09/23/2009, -1/+6This is GA, son. "Neighbors" can be 5 miles away in some areas.
- melloace, on 09/23/2009, -0/+5They gathered a lot of us up from local colleges to go help out the best we could but there was only so much we could do in some places. Check out what happened to six flags http://www.newsday.com/blogs/entertainment/direct- ... .
- DigitalisAkujin, on 09/23/2009, -0/+4Didn't the southeast have a drought not too long ago?
- RodJohnsonSays, on 09/23/2009, -0/+4Thats so sad.
Frontpage CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/23/carroll.county.fl ... - DeskFlyer, on 09/23/2009, -1/+5A desert's what?
- jhamer, on 09/23/2009, -0/+4Yep sure did. Actually in a severe drought not long ago where I live in upstate SC. It was weird to see it rain for like a whole week.
- pathouston22, on 09/23/2009, -2/+6http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs264 ...
- scuba7183, on 09/23/2009, -0/+4Yes. Yes they do. So he's screwed.
- uptwolait, on 09/23/2009, -0/+3That chick in pic #9 is hot.
- cluckcluck, on 09/23/2009, -0/+3cars != boats.
- n0ia, on 09/23/2009, -0/+3At one point it was so bad that Georgia legislators were trying to take back part of the Tennessee River that they claim belongs to Georgia (something about state lines, blah blah).
- spazzmckiwi, on 09/23/2009, -0/+3actually, were technically still in a drought, just no more water restrictions.
- n0ia, on 09/23/2009, -1/+4I live in north Georgia, and there were several roads in my area shut down and emergency evacuations going on. Compared to Katrina, no, this wasn't nearly as bad, but this also wasn't a hurricane. It was just a few days of non-stop rain.
- internetisscary, on 09/23/2009, -1/+3Floods are my biggest nightmare. One of the reasons why I live in a desert.
- Perigren, on 09/23/2009, -1/+3As a resident of Atlanta who is very used to moderate weather this thing was scary. In Atlanta we declare a state of emergency when we get a foot of snow, and thus many people were unfortunately unprepared to deal with crazy weather like this.
- spazzmckiwi, on 09/23/2009, -1/+3well as kanye said it.
Ima let you keep rainin' Atlanta. But Katrina had the most black people harmed by a flood that George Bush didn't care about of ALL TIME! - fmorel90, on 09/23/2009, -0/+2We've been in a drought for over a year. And apparently Lake Lanier is still several feet below its normal level after all this rain.
- crash331, on 09/23/2009, -1/+3Not near as bad. It is very localized. I live about 40 mins north of Atlanta, and we just got a lot of rain, no flooding.
Basically to get flooded you needed to live around Sweetwater Creek, the Chattahoochee, Nancy Creek and other creeks in the areas.
It was flash flooding, not wide spread flooding. - crash331, on 09/23/2009, -1/+3Sonny prayed for water, so this is what we get.
- n0ia, on 09/23/2009, -0/+2That truly is a sad story. I know there was a man in Chattanooga, TN that got swept away into a storm drain. I'm sure there were others that died in the floods, but these two are the only ones I've heard about.
- molochi, on 09/23/2009, -0/+1Welcome to Atlanta. There are a lot of somewhat older houses (and some newer ones that should never have been built) in the wider metro Atlanta area that sit in 100year flood zones. It was commented on the evening news that these floods surpassed those levels, but most of the houses they showed on TV were inside the 100 year flood areas.
Atlanta, has dry and wet years, but averages more rainfall than Seattle. When it rains here, it pours and then we get flash floods as drought starved trees wash into the creeks. Back in the early 90's we had a summer with closer to 2 months of constant torrential rain and persistent floods and 2 years later they were talking drought again. We also get tornadoes, 60mph winds from hurricane remnants off the gulf, summer months where every day breaks 100F and when it snows a foot, the streets ice over and the whole city shuts down for 2 or 3 days. - keviniskool, on 09/23/2009, -2/+3DAMN NATURE, YOU SCARY!
- wertach, on 09/24/2009, -0/+1Dugg for her Hot ass.
- ngmcs8203, on 09/23/2009, -0/+1Someone please tell me (since it seems like we're living under a rock out here in California) but how bad is this flooding compared to the Katrina floods in New Orleans?
- numberneal, on 09/23/2009, -0/+1hope you brought your totes
- molochi, on 09/23/2009, -0/+1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qB0lb401ZU
- novenator, on 09/24/2009, -0/+1ah, but then you have FLASH floods to worry about internetisscary!
- RealmDown, on 09/24/2009, -0/+1More like 300 ft. away and about 40' down, but yes my neighbors. Sub-divisions can be somewhat hilly.
The two-story residence 4 homes down from me would have to be completely submerged before I would worry about my yard starting to flood.
@crash331: In the case of a one of my neighbors, I *wish* it was 5 miles. :-) - Ihosvany, on 09/24/2009, -0/+1thats quite a small plane
- ChadN, on 09/24/2009, -0/+0You're bad... Nice one, though.
- Ihosvany, on 09/23/2009, -2/+1your neighboors? you bought a house within 20 ft of theirs, no?
- SpookyET, on 09/23/2009, -6/+1Go dawgs! Sic 'em! Woof! Woof! Woof!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRevRq-enXc - AdmiralHalsey, on 09/23/2009, -9/+3I wonder if these people are going to take any help from the socialist government. /s
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