THE BIG FLOOD 9-21-09

2:00am Monday September 21st we are awoken by the loudest cracks of thunder we have ever heard!!!! It was raining so hard and the thunder kept coming - though interesting note, not a lot of lightning and no wind. Adam and I watched the water rush down our street at amazing speed. Though in all of this I didn't think to go get the camera :) And Isaiah slept through it all. After the storm passed, we finished what was left of our night and Adam got up for work as normal. But he didn't get far!! He tried for 2 hours to find a way to work that wasn't flooded but everything was closed. So, lucky him, an extra day off. We played most of the day and took it easy- not much else to do. Then around 2pm another storm broke loose. Not quite as huge as the first but still a ton of rain. And this time I took some pictures. You can't see a whole lot due to the rain and the fact I am on our front porch, but the videos are pretty good.

This is out our basement door, which opens to the side of our house. The wated came down the hill in our backyard, in between our house and the neighbors and out to the road.

You can see the dirt trail flowing.

This is our neighbors mailbox. You can kind of see the water coming up on his lawn and hitting around it.

Adam ventured out in the rain to see what the road was like.

After the rain slowed some, he even took Isaiah out for a bit.

Let me say it was quite an adventure. Luck for us, we had no structural damage nor any water leaks, though many in our neighborhood were not so lucky. Adam was able to return to work on Tuesday and even mowed that night when he got home! The west side of Atlanta got hit worse than us and they are still cleaning up the mess the rain caused.