From drought to monsoon season. It's crazy here in Georgia.

[beachmom]

Looks like it is now beginning to make the national news, but the weather has gone completely mad here. Back in 2007, we were in a severe drought. Now, fast forward 2 years, and we are in an autumn rainy season that seems to have no end. Normally, the fall is the driest time of the year, which makes it doubly bizarre. It is pouring now really hard. Basically, it rains all day every day. The sun does not exist. And now people are beginning to die.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2009/09/2_killed_1_missing_as_storms_drench_southeast.php?ref=fpa

At least two people died in floodwaters in Georgia and another was believed drowned in Tennessee as rows of thunderstorms drenched the Southeast, submerging some major highways in the Atlanta area and prompting flood warnings Monday.

Forecasters issued flood alerts for parts of Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Georgia as more rain fell after days of storms that have saturated the ground. As much as 20 inches had fallen in three days in the Atlanta metro area.

Emergency workers in the Atlanta suburb of Lawrenceville found a woman dead in her sunken vehicle after it was swept off a road by flooding Monday, said Capt. Thomas Rutledge of the Gwinnett County Fire and Emergency Services. He had no further information about the woman.

"In my 22 years in the fire department here in Gwinnett we have not experienced flooding to this degree," Rutledge aid.

Just wanted to chat with y'all. I realize global climate change has these kinds of effects. Please forgive me for turning on a bunch of lights so it isn't so dark.

[Inuca]

1. I heard about it this morning

Stay safe and, to the extent possible, dry.

[wisteria]

2. It sounds so dreary and awful. Please stay safe and dry. n/t

[MBS]

3. wow--20 inches in three days!

May your house, and family, stay safe and dry!

[ProSense]

4. Sounds really dismal

Stay safe, and leave if the situation becomes dangerous.

[karynnj]

5. Wow, I just saw the footage on channel 13.

I hope your area is ok - what they showed was incredibly bad. Stay safe - thinking about you and your family.

[Island Blue]

6. Stay safe, Beachmom

From what I've seen on the Weather Channel the situation looks terrible. Have the canceled school?

[beachmom]

7. Yes, they did today. Also, several major interstates are shut down

in spots where the river has either flowed over the highway or is at the level of the highway.

Frankly, it is unreal. They had a shot of a reporter waist deep in water right near where I used to live. Thankfully, it is hilly where I am so we are fine.

Thanks everyone for your kind thoughts.

[TayTay]

8. Stay dry and safe Beachmom

Flooding is a particularly awful thing because it is so slow and so inexorable. There is nothing you can do by just watch and wait to see if your home is the next one to go under. There is nothing to do but wait and worry and calculate the bills from this in your head. It's a long painful and maddening process. I do hope you are spared the brunt of this and are safe and well.