VIDEO: Mother Of Two Dies In Georgia Flood, Toddler Swept Away
From Examiner.com
Quite simply, it’s a mess in Atlanta. Residents awoke this morning to school closures, a mudslide on Highway 78 and closed roads. The school systems in Carroll, Douglas, Paulding and Stevens counties announced school closures today. Atlanta’s largest school system Gwinnett County announced that its schools would remain closed for the entire day, as opposed to a 2-hour delay as originally reported.
All creeks and streams in metro Atlanta were spilling out of their banks or approaching flood levels. Officials issued a boil water advisory in Douglas County due to broken water lines. Local fire departments report they are rescuing people from their flooded homes. A trailer was swept off its foundation in Douglas County. Fox 5 News reports that the first fatality of the storms is a 39-year-old Gwinnett County woman whose mini van was swept away by the floodwaters. It also reports that a second weather-related fatality is a Douglas County man who was also swept away. Neighbors are taking boats around neighborhoods to rescue people from their flooded Powder Springs homes.
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Well, MsJaLew1.. I’m glad your God hear YOUR prayers and I’m sorry that it didn’t hear the prayers of those who died and/or lost everything they worked so very hard for. I guess it did answer y’all prayers for water MANY Months AFTER the drought, but.. It kinda over-did it!! Next time y’all have a drought.. Just pray for a LITTLE water.. And hope it makes a more accurate assessment!
Yes we had a drought. We went several months with minimal almost no rain at all. Our rivers and lakes dried up, we had a water ban to were we couldn’t even water our lawns that was just lifted not too long ago. Now we have more water then we know what to do with. It is terrible! I just happen to be one of the Blessed ones who didn’t suffer any damage or loss. God is good! I just Prayer for all the others who were not so lucky.
Didn’t Atlanta have a big water problem not too long ago?