Atlanta Flooding kill 2 in Rain-Soaked Atlanta area
Atlanta Flooding, metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia, led to floods that killed two people, a spokeswoman for the Georgia Emergency Management Agency said Monday.
Another person was reported missing, said Dena Brummer.
About 100 miles north, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, one person was swept into rushing water and is presumed drowned, said Jeremy Heidt, a spokesman for the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency in Nashville.
And in Chattooga County northwest of Atlanta, concerns that a levee might fail led 300 people to evacuate their homes in the city of Trion, where authorities opened a shelter for them in a church, Brummer said.
The problems came after days of persistent rain soaked a region that just recently was gripped by a seemingly unrelenting drought.
“Conditions are dangerous,” Brummer said about the waters, which have left most of metro Atlanta subject to flash floods. “We are encouraging people to stay at home and to stay off the roads if they can.”
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Atlanta Flooding kill 2 in Rain-Soaked Atlanta area was first posted on September 22, 2009 at 12:27 am.
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