Heavy rains, beginning on September 19th, dumped between 15 and 20 inches of rain over three days on parts of Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. The deluge overwhelmed natural and man made systems, and the record-breaking downpour turned streams into rivers, swamping neighborhoods, washing out roads and, unfortunately, taking at least nine lives. Damage costs are estimated at $250 million, the cleanup just now beginning. Georgia’s Republican Governor Sonny Perdue recently announced that President Obama has issued a Federal Disaster Declaration for individual assistance to aid residents of five affected counties. Collected here are a few recent photos around the area, largely centered on Atlanta, Georgia. (30 photos total)
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In 1955 (1956) there were floods like that here in Albuquerque.
I remember that second street was under two feet of water for most of its length.
They called that episode ’50 year rains’. In 1929 there was a time of ‘100 year rains’ in Socorro and upriver. My mother used to tell us about the floods in La Joya.