Lost City of Atlanta...

Well, it's been a crazy week here.  It's been raining here for the last 8 days, and on Monday, after 17+ inches of rain, many of the rivers, lakes, and streams had just reached their limits.  Monday morning the flash flood warnings were issued, and news started reporting about several roads getting flooded out.  I was already at work keeping an eye on it, and worried that I wouldn't make it home, I left around 3:00pm... apparently just in time.  I managed to make the 20-something mile drive home in around 45 minutes, most of the traffic due to a lane and 1/2 of 575 being covered in water for a good 100ft in Woodstock.  Less than an hour later, I heard 575 was blocked fully, and around 2 hours later, it looked like the picture above.  (575, for those of you who don't live here, is the major road that connects Canton/Woodstock to Atlanta).  Many of my friends driving similar routes to me took 4 1/2 or 5 hours to get home Monday evening, taking crazy routes to make it home.  By Tuesday morning the water had receeded on 575, and after they checked the bridges around 10am, I headed into work.  Luckily, that was the only way the flooding had affected us.

However, my friend Greg wasn't so lucky. Greg lives in a house with a friend of his and his brother, and unfortunately, Greg's room is the basement.  Monday morning Greg's house went from some wet carpet in the basement to knee-deep water.  Nearly everything he has was destroyed.  Hopefully they have flood insurance, it's looking promising that they do, but we haven't heard confirmation he's covered.  Greg took some pictures which I've posted below.

 

In other news, not much else is new.  Josh is teething and Katie is being herself. :)  As always keep an eye on my Twitter and Facebook for my day-to-day updates!