Not to worry!

[goodjoan]

For those of you not on facebook and not subjected to my million little posts the last few days. We are fine here. A little damp but not victims of the horrible flooding that overtook parts of Atlanta and the surrounding areas. The worst we saw was some water puddling in our crawlspace because the ground was saturated. I'm glad we live on a

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[gin121081]

Thanks for posting and for responding to my message. My sister lives in ATL and from her accounts, even though she lives in the mountains, and the news accounts i have been so worried about it! so glad to know you and the family are doing OK

[goodjoan]

It is pretty bad in other places, houses and cars underwater, even an entire school! Several people died after getting caught in the rising water. Some of the bigger creeks and rivers that are usually in the 2-4 ft range, that have flood levels of 10 feet or so, were cresting at over 20 feet! All 3 major highways here, and several smaller highways were closed at one point or another due to water completely covering the roads. Dan's usual 45 min commute took 4 hours on Monday! The reservoir that feeds most of Atlanta it's water was way down due to the drought...it gained a foot of water in the days leading up to the flooding! 6 inches on Sunday alone! This is a huge lake that rises a fraction of an inch during heavy rains. During the drought, the news made a comment about how we'd need a dozen hurricane level rains to get the water levels back to normal. Apparently, we had close to that last week!