Welcome to Atlantis.. err.. Atlanta

[Olo401]

I haven't been following this too closely until now. I have some friends living in the hills outside the city who've been relaying info about the situation for the past couple days, and today wrote a pretty extensive blog post about the storm & resulting flooding:

Like several states in the southeast, Georgia is mostly clay. The dirt here (if you want to call it that) is bright reddish orange, very fine, and packs densely. It it can be molded into shapes and fired in a kiln to make pottery. As such, it does not absorb or leach water very well. So when the low pressure system stalled, the rains came... and didn't stop.... for days. The ground absorbed what it could, and the rest flowed over the ground and into streams, seeking lower ground.

Streams swelled their banks and the water kept rising. The news coverage described the devastation. To get a feel for how bad it was, there are some videos here and here. Having seen the videos, it doesn't come anywhere close to seeing it with your own eyes. For a side by side comparison, here is an area that is about 100 yds from the banks of stream during the flooding and a day later after waters receded:

Current

http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos...4_502438_n.jpg

Normal:

http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._3969681_n.jpg

I also posted my own personal video here. That stream is normally 3-4 feet wide and 20 feet lower...

The blog gets into the politics of the situation, but I'm gonna leave that alone for the time being. I'd rather see if anyone from BG's welcoming confines is living/visiting Georgia & get their input on the situation.

[Qalbert]

Georgia has super advanced technology that will disappear for thousands of years when they are submerged?

Edit: HOLY SHIT, I JUST SOLVED CHRISTIANITY!
Jesus was an Atlantean! the super advanced technology appeared as magic, or miracles, so he was killed for it, and the foolish primitive jews of the time started to worship him. IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!

[Feielle]

In before Futurama reference!

I work in Atlanta, live in Norcross (just northeast of the city.) Flooding was really bad at my office - we have a small creek in the woods behind my complex thats usually about 12" deep and 6 or 7 feet across. This sits behind about 200 yards of woods.

On Monday, that creek overflowed all the way up to the back door of our office. The suite next to ours had massive plumbing issues; the toilets backed up and the entire complex west of us flooded with sewage. We weren't allowed to use the restrooms for the past 2 days. I worked from home.

Today I get in and there are people in hazmat suits cleaning out the other offices. Tons of furniture and carpet in dumpsters, and it reeks like hell.

Outside of my yard being washed away in the rain (there was about 1' of standing water around my house) I was mostly unscathed. The house I lived in 2 months ago was under a fair amount of water; had I still lived there my workshop would have been a total loss.

[tyven]

why is it so good for farming if it is made of clay? what a weird state

[antihero]

I live in Kennesaw, KSU was totally flooded, classes were canceled for two days. See if you can find the pictures of Six Flags over Georgia, the Scream Machine was almost completely submerged in water.

[wipers]

Mother nature is a bitch.

[Despain]

Yepyep. Its getting pretty bad down here, but its starting to clear up. Lake Lanier is getting raped, considering today is the first day it hasn't rained in the past 7-8 days. Driving to college, there's a lake on the way that flooded a bit into the streets, and I almost slid off the road because I wasn't paying attention. They closed down public schools due to flooding, but not colleges, at least mine Q_Q

It's fine though. People in Georgia have a tendency to over-exaggerate a lot of shit... at least from my experience.

EDIT: Although this was hardly over-exaggerated D:

[Max™]

Georgia has super advanced technology that will disappear for thousands of years when they are submerged?

Edit: HOLY SHIT, I JUST SOLVED CHRISTIANITY!
Jesus was an Atlantean! the super advanced technology appeared as magic, or miracles, so he was killed for it, and the foolish primitive jews of the time started to worship him. IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!

Awesome.

I give this the "ridiculous, yet logical" stamp of approval.

Not like it makes any less sense than Christianity, and yes, I am completely serious.

[Nightfyre]

I live in Kennesaw, KSU was totally flooded, classes were canceled for two days. See if you can find the pictures of Six Flags over Georgia, the Scream Machine was almost completely submerged in water.

Fuck, UGA didn't get enough to warrant canceling even one day I'm from Kennesaw though lol, friends back home were sending me pictures of basically every major road in Cobb County underwater.

[Kainsin]

When I went to work in Owego, NY four and a half years ago there was a flood the weekend I moved in. Now I'm relocating from that job to one near Atlanta, GA starting in three weeks and there's a flood here. I get the feeling that I'm being followed...