Flooding around our Home

Well if you've been watching the news you've probably heard about the flooding in Atlanta. It all started a week ago Sunday. It rained like it normally does here off and on through out the day, but the rain continued...Monday...Tuesday...Wednesday...and all through the week. The following Sunday night we got a crazy storm, the thunder and lightning were amazing...except that it was 4 in the morning, any way after that the rivers and streams had had enough, and things started to swell...and then Monday afternoon we got hit again, 12 inches of rain in an hour. That's when everything went under.

Our apartment complex has a nice golf course, this is what it looks like now, you can see a flag right in the middle. These pictures were taken on Tuesday, so a day after everything was at it's worst. You can see the mud line of where the water was the highest on the bushes and trees in the background.Another view of the golf course. This one taken from the road. Again you can see the mud line. Also notice the fence the water took out when it was at it's highest, it covered the fence, the road I'm standing on taking the picture, and all the houses behind me.This is a bridge in our complex that Kyler and I had gone walking across just a few days earlier This is the house across the street from us...again the day after so you can see the water line...so sad.

We are lucky enough to live on a hill in our complex so we have so far been unscathed. The 12 apartments next to us flooded last week, not to mention the homes at the bottom of the golf course like the one pictured above. We definitely weren't hit the worse, some neighborhoods are completely underwater. When I went to pick up Brian from work Monday night, I saw first hand the mayhem. Every street I tried was either under water or had trees and power lines down. It took me 2 hours to go less then three miles. We ended up eating dinner at the hospital with Brian to wait for things to calm down. I left the house at 20 to 5 to pick up Brian and didn't get home till almost 9. I feel blessed to have had no problems. Our heart gos out to those who have been affected. It's suppose to rain all this week again...I hope we have recovered enough to get through it.