All of our utilities worked fine during the storms, so I could see this kind of image on my computer. On Monday, for most of the day, this is what I saw when I looked at the radar screen.
Atlanta's Big Flood brought more rain in a week than I had ever seen. I'm guessing we got an inch of rain per day for a week, then on the last day we got several inches at once.
No one knows what will happen when you have that much rain until they actually do. I saw several houses here and there with flooded yards and basements that I never would have guessed would flood. This storm was weird. There was practically no wind. That's why so few trees fell. In that sense, many people were spared much damage. But here is one tree that fell down the street from my house. I think the trees roots were weak.
After looking at the photos below of our yard during the worst of the downpours, you may think our house had water damage. Wrong. Not a drop. What a blessing! Thankfully, the creek that flows through our yard, which all but dries up during the summer, could handle lots of water. The lake it flows into downstream still had about 3 feet to go to reach the top of the dam. Our creek is so much lower than our house that the house was never threatened. But on the last day of the drenching, watching the water flow over the driveway really got my attention! It happened 3 times that day but somehow our driveway withstood it. There are a lot of plants in my yard and a lot of vines. I was thankful for every single one of them that day--even the poison ivy!
This part of our creek flows through our next door neighbor's yard.
Here you can see the creek going over the driveway that runs behind our house. I don't think it ever got too deep to drive through, but I'd rather do it in an suv than in a little car.
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