Holy cow.

You’ve gotta see this photo that was sent into Fox5 yesterday of flooding across from Decatur High School!  That’s East Maple, correct?

Geez, I didn’t realize things were quite that bad yesterday.

The National Weather Service has issued a flood warning for South Fork Peachtree Creek, which flows just north of Decatur. The creek was already above flood stage by noon today.

Here’s an image of South Fork Peachtree Creek at about 1:00PM today. As you can see, it had already reached the bottom the Clairmont Lake bridge (100 feet upstream from the Clairmont Road bridge).

Please be safe and don’t walk or drive through flood waters. It seems like an obvious enough warning, but someone always does it.

(Post by Andisheh Nouraee)

UPDATE III: Asst. City Manager David Junger responds “Our Storm Water Engineer Julie Gyuricza received this complaint this morning and she is investigating the nature and cause of the flooding. We do not have enough information currently to know why this area flooded.”

UPDATE II: Jon writes in with a second report…”So it turns out there was a major blockage in one of the 18 inch pipes, and the city has already come out and taken care of it. They have also said they will be on the lookout for the area in the future.  I’m really pleased with how quickly the city has responded to us. I hope you let everyone know, because the city earned it’s reputation on this one….”

UPDATE: Jon writes in “Peggy already has the drain crew out looking at the area. It’s really great to see the city respond so quickly.”

Four days ago, Paula reported “rumbling on the Midway Woods yahoo group about the stalled development at Midway and S. Candler. …the latest is that the clearing of the lot has caused huge run-off problems and flooding.”

Yesterday evening, the President of the Midway Woods Neighborhood Association, Jon Rork, wrote in asking for help…

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Decatur 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?

Irishlass sends in these pics of flooding of the lake at Roy Moss Park across the street from College Heights school.  According to Lass…

It’s a flood plain serving it’s purpose well these past 7/8 days.

She also adds…

And a tree down in my neighbor’s yard on Garland Ave, which faces onto Roy Moss Park, missed his house by inches so feeling pretty lucky over here.

Nelliebelle sent in this pic of the “new Oakhurst Creek.”

Use this post to report flooding around Decatur and Atlanta.

I’ve given over the right column to Twitter updates for the moment to keep folks updated on the latest flooding reports in the area.

Stay safe out there everyone and don’t drive through any pools of water too deep to see the bottom.

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.

The Clairmont Heights Association blog has a note from DeKalb Commissioner Kathie Gannon alerting the public that due to the flooding of the Maloof Auditorium  “Winning the Water War Workshops on Saturday and Monday as well as the Tuesday Board of Commissioners meeting have moved.”

Guess the Maloof Building lost its own Water War today.  Why am I not surprised?

My apologies if you’ve already clicked over to this link, but these pics, linked to by Fencesitter, demand more exposure.

Apparently the flooding has been so bad up at Medlock Park, just north of the Decatur city limits, that the crawdaddies are movin’ in!

These are just a couple of the pics posted on the Druid Hills Youth Sports webpage.

Does the flooding get any worse than in front of Westchester Elementary?   Nothing like hitting that pond at 40 mph!

Where is the worst street flooding in Decatur?  If you want to augment your claim with a photo, I’m happy to post ‘em here.