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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.
Pat Crawford cries as she holds a photo of her 2-year-old grandson Preston Slade Crawford, right in photograph, who died Monday, Sept. 21, 2009, when his home was washed into the Snake Creek in Carrollton, Ga. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Calby Haught of Austell, Georgia rests at the American Red Cross emergency shelter September 22, 2009 in Marietta, Georgia. Haught escaped chest-level water that was consuming his mobile home in Austell and spent four hours in the water helping other flood victims.
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.
Pat Crawford cries as she holds a photo of her 2-year-old grandson Preston Slade Crawford, right in photograph, who died Monday, Sept. 21, 2009, when his home was washed into the Snake Creek in Carrollton, Ga. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Calby Haught of Austell, Georgia rests at the American Red Cross emergency shelter September 22, 2009 in Marietta, Georgia. Haught escaped chest-level water that was consuming his mobile home in Austell and spent four hours in the water helping other flood victims.
