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Six feet high and rising
And then it got worse. After Tom and I took pics this afternoon, the rain slacked up some but the water really started rising. Sope Creek runs through our very hilly neighborhood just before it meets the Chattahoochee, carrying all the runoff from streets and neighborhoods to the north and east of us.
There are probably a dozen seriously flooded houses here in the ‘hood — the creek just came on in their houses. That’s not including about every other house that has a flooded basement just from so much rain.
This evening, while it wasn’t raining, everyone was out walking and gawking with the firetrucks and rescue crews. Many pics here lifted from Dave, Frieda, Perry, Geri and Amy.
Twitter was blazing with amazing shots of downtown like the one above, and of Buckhead, where Peachtree Creek did its flooding thing like it never has before.
This is at the Andy Young International/Freedom Parkway overpass, on the north side of the Connector looking south:
According to the Weather Channel, it’s going to pour down rain again late tonight and early tomorrow morning. And good lord, is that system I see on the radar back in MO and AR coming our way, too?
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Five feet high and rising
This is just crazy. The radar looks like we’ve got hours more of it ahead of us after a little break in the downpour to clear the streets. Whoever heard of school being closed for rain?
Tom and Cubbie and I took a little tour of Sope Creek’s path through the ‘hood. Wish I could have made it over to the bridge at Paper Mill for what I’m sure is a spectacular view, but the road has been closed there since this morning.
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