Quite a night.

Between the dog freaking-out, a river in the basement, late-night calls from Code Red, and some pretty savage lightning, I’m just a bit groggy this morning.

And what was with that siren?  Altmod echos my confusion…

Do the sirens go off for “flash flood” as well because that was the only active alert in effect while the sirens were going off. When I hear the sirens I always freak out thinking tornado.

Assuming this was Agnes Scott’s siren, perhaps they would be willing to clarify.

UPDATE: NTDecatur tweeted this in the midst of the chaos last night:

The ASC siren is for a severe thunderstorm warning. Please RT.

UPDATE II: Follow the flood story on Twitter here.

As I’m sure many of you are aware, the City of Decatur used its “Code Red” notification system this morning to announce that the reason water pressure was low or non-existent this morning was due to a “power outage at a pumping station”.

But here’s the thing…by the time we got the message, full water pressure had been restored.

Don’t get me wrong, I really like this notification system but perhaps in a non-emergency situation they could call it something other than “Code Red”. I still get that initial lump in my stomach when I see that phone number with so many 9s and 1s and hear the words “code red”.

UPDATE: 11Alive has details about why the water outage occurred.