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Posted by: purple hayes Sep 25 2009, 07:58 PM

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/09/flooding_in_the_southeast.html

Photos 1, 2, 20, 21 AND 23 are relatively close to my house. Picture 7 is from the city David Wallimann used to live in.

I spent 5 hours trying to get to/from work on Monday in the rain. Tuesday the weather was fine, but the traffic was crazy because so many roads were washed out. I took the day off after I couldn't get to work.

They're predicting more rain this weekend.

Posted by: Praetorian Sep 25 2009, 08:28 PM

Wow...picture 10 breaks my heart

Posted by: Matt23 Sep 25 2009, 08:33 PM

That's terrible. Is flooding common in this area or is this a freak occurence?

Posted by: sted Sep 25 2009, 08:48 PM

Weve had a few like this over here, just destroys everything! Luckily not where i live!

Posted by: Lian Gerbino Sep 25 2009, 09:00 PM

wow man, that´s terrible! that old woman with their kid´s photo is so sad, hope no more deaths come with the flooding. hope you and yours are ok man!

Posted by: Sollesnes Sep 25 2009, 09:21 PM

Very sad. Damage must be catastrophic, not just for things, but also for people.
Is it very common in the area?

Posted by: johnvg Sep 25 2009, 09:29 PM

That's horrible. Last year I went to Atlanta for a weekend and got trapt in the city when it had the major gas shortage and people were leaving their empty cars everywhere I looked.

Posted by: Fingerspasm Sep 25 2009, 10:25 PM

Living here in the midwest that is something that is always just one rainy week away from happening to many of us. We had floods this spring. Luckily my main house did not flood but the home that I rent out was flooded.
If I am not mistaken Georgia has had bad drought the last couple of years. Hopefully everyone will recover. Its harder these days with the slower economy.

Posted by: David Wallimann Sep 25 2009, 11:23 PM

Wow!!!
I had no idea!!!

Posted by: enforcer Sep 25 2009, 11:35 PM

you need to get out more often man


Seriously this sucks! We had a similar flooding incident here too a few days ago, it was just terrible...

Posted by: Pedja Simovic Sep 25 2009, 11:38 PM

We had some bad floods in Serbia this year but nothing as drastic as on pictures you left... Terrible!

Posted by: purple hayes Sep 26 2009, 12:10 AM

I've lived in Atlanta for 20 years and I've never seen it like that.


@johnvg - That was another fun time to live here.

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Sep 26 2009, 05:40 PM

Oh my god, this is terrible I didn't see this anywhere on the news, this is major issue.

Posted by: MickeM Sep 26 2009, 08:47 PM

It's so terrible! And I just read about a typhoon over the Philippines with 60 dead. Sad days.