Decatur CodeRed Sends Out Flash Flood Warning
January 24, 2010 | 6:54 pmDecatur just sent out a CodeRed Flash Flood Warning. The AJC reports that flood warnings will remain in effect throughout the evening and into Monday morning.
I haven’t been out all day, so all I can report is that, yes, the muddy, basement river has returned. But there are a couple of more relevant and useful Twitter reports of flooding in and around the city of Decatur.
- @claymaker posted two photos (one and two) of flooding around his house.
- @DecStan reports “Serious flooding on Scott Blvd (#DecaturGA) in low spot between Clairemont and Superior.” Does he mean between Clairemont on Ponce @ Westchester?
What’s it doing around you?
We’re in Dearborn Park/Midway Woods (on Deerwood) and the development over here has caused the creek to flood the park. Water is just sheeting over Midway Road–runoff from the construction sites.
Oh, and of course our backyard has a creek in it, but that’s par for the course.
We are over between Midway Woods and Winona park and was bailing out our basement for two hours just to keep the water at the door level to make it stop coming in. Our sump pump could not keep up with the amount of water coming down.
The creek running by our home on Garden Lane has overflowed and created a minor lake in our backyard. Hasn’t been this bad since the Fall floods.
Re “Serious flooding on Scott Blvd (#DecaturGA) in low spot between Clairemont and Superior.”: It means just that. Superior comes off of Clairemont and then turns and runs sort of parallel to it for a ways. There was a lake between the two today with some of it spilling onto Clairemont Avenue itself. I think they’ve got storm drainage/culvert issues. Recurrent repairs have been the norm for years.
Haven’t seen the Clairemont playground yet but am getting ready to throw out more pairs of jeans. Hope the portable bathrooms don’t malfunction again.
I spent four hours running the wet vac in our downstairs last night on Drexel. We had additional drainage added after the Fall floods–perhaps it helped us get a little less water. Still, four hours.
We had 15 inches of standing water across our entire yard (I’m not even going to mention the crawl) the culvert flooded over, the road storm drain was overwelmed and dumped water into our yard, and I spent two hours with a shovel clearing out the drainage to get the yard to clear. Every big storm is a $2000 event now.