I finally got off my island (Paulding County GA) pics of flood....

In case you didn't know I live in Paulding County Georgia, one of the worse hit areas as a result of the flooding in Metro Atlanta. It was a very surreal experience for me because even though I knew we had a thunderstorm that sat over our house for 12hrs (6pm Sunday until 6am Monday) I never imagined seeing what had become of the city.

This is the road that I typical take to work every morning. Underneath this bridge is a creek that on a normal day is about 8-10ft wide and a foot or two deep....not today!

Here is a small video of the same road:

CRAZY!!

This is a neighborhood near a school.

All over the city you see roads that are completely washed away like this one which used to be a train track.

Here's a video of the Highway I use for work going in the opposite direction:

The two cars that you see in that video....a few hours after this video you could only see their roofs.


This road is literally right behind my neighborhood so we are very thankful to avoid flooding. On my 5 hour commute home Monday evening (typically takes a little over an hour) I made it to the other side of this bridge and had to turn around and go an hour out of the way to get to the other side.


This video I took with my Iphone evoked two feelings. The first was amazement and the second was major frustration because this is where my commute home took a bad turn (or 20!). On the left side of the screen is/was a baseball field and public pool. In the distance you can see the roof of the concession stands so that's about 10-11ft of water. On the right side is a business that sells custom sheds and play sets.... That's completely gone! I don't know of any body of water remotely close to location.



Underneath the water seen here is a brand new bridge (I think it's still there) and just like in my neighborhood that was a really small creek that ran underneath it.


Below is a video of the neighborhood next to that bridge shown above: Whoever the lady (CNN news anchor) was she really pissed me off with her mocking jive talk to the black camera man "They are going to the store...I mean the 'sto' to get a 'drank'" anyway that was a sidebar.

The water got deeper on the backside of the subdivision. I had video of that but it was corrupted somehow.


So far I heard estimates of 250,000,000.00 in damage between the 17 counties that were declared disastor areas, but I think that number will go way up. I was tripping about missing money since I couldn't get into the office then I thought about the people who were probably already out of work and lost their cars and houses. In the grand scheme of things what I missed it absolutely nothing compared to these families and the majority of them didn't have flood insurance so they are really in a bad position. Hopefully Sonny "Sonny Boy" Perdue (our governor) and FEMA will take good care of the people and they don't get caught up in a political stage show called stimulus package.

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