UPDATE: CIty of Decatur Schools are now closed tomorrow.  h/t: StacyReno via Twitter

Both Scott and my wife report that other news orgs are saying that City of Decatur schools will open 2 hours late tomorrow.

Plan accordingly parental units.

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.

Medlock Park Under Peachtree Creek Flooding

David Kaufman’s excellent book, Peachtree Creek, portrayed one of the metro area’s most important watersheds as the collector of the objects and people that the city wished it could forget.  The result was a book filled with contrasting moments of both deep insight and beautiful despair.  Because it was the place that few visited or ever thought about, it could reveal more about the city in which it flowed than the Coke Museum or Margaret Mitchell House ever could.

However, record amounts have rain have suddenly put this once-forgotten creek back in the headlines.

The creek’s watershed covers much of the northeast metro area inside of I-285.  Up in Buckhead, the AJC reports of major flooding in some homes thanks to the swollen creek.  And a little closer to home, the South Fork of Peachtree Creek continues to flood Medlock Park (recent home of crawfish), just north of Decatur.  Druid Hills Youth Sports Board President James Laubenthal links to some new pics and writes in…

We are trying to get assistance from the County to try and find a fix for the on-going problem.  One of the issues is the ever-increasing vegetation and debris at the Willivee Road bridge over the creek. The debris acts as a strainer and slows down the flow, and the back up begins.

Ann writes in to inform us that the Committee to Re-elect Marc Wisniewski to the Decatur School Board has just launched a website in support of their candidate.

On the site you can read Marc’s reasons for running for re-election, take a look at his bio, learn the time and place of neighborhood chats and discussions (looks like the campaign kick-off was last night), and get an idea of what Marc hopes to achieve with the Board over the next 4 years.