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Photos from the city show submerged cars, fallen trees and water inundating streets and houses. City officials said in a 2:30 p.m. advisory that authorities have begun the storm repair and tree ...
In the Atlanta area, 48,000 customers experienced power outages. [19] The winds tore a roof off a house and damaged a number of mobile homes. The heavy rainfall caused severe flooding; in Donalsonville, 250 houses and 50 businesses suffered water damage, while another 35 were damaged in nearby Miller County. [20]
Summer is the time of the second rainfall maximum during the year across Georgia, and the time of the main rainfall maximum in Florida. [46] [49] During the late summer and fall, tropical cyclones move into the region from the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, supplying portions of the area with one-quarter of their annual rainfall, on average.
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Douglasville received the most rain in 24 hours than any other city in metro Atlanta, the city received over 16.5 inches of rain on Sept 21, 2009. (The USGS calculated it to be a greater-than- 500-year flood ; the National Weather Service stated that chances of that much rain anywhere in the region are 1 in 10,000 years.)
A massive area, where 2-8 inches of rain has fallen as of Wednesday afternoon from the storm, stretched from central Texas to western Alabama.
Rain began falling on the Atlanta area on September 15, 2009, with the National Weather Service (NWS) reporting only 0.04 inches that day at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. [3] Additional rain fell throughout the week, with only a trace amount recorded for September 18. [ 3 ]