Comments on: Decatur CodeRed Sends Out Flash Flood Warning

By: mbabazi

mbabazi — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:30:38 +0000

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.

By: Rod

Rod — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:30:41 +0000

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.

By: Karass

Karass — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:58:13 +0000

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.

By: JC

JC — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:47:28 +0000

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.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:10:27 +0000

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.