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Sunday's rain causes flooding |
2010-01-26 |
By Martha Barksdale |
Some residents of the Tinsley Mill condominiums are drying out after about 3 inches of rain that fell on the south metro area Sunday afternoon forced them out of their homes.
Joe O'Conor, assistant chief of operations for the Peachtree City Fire Department, said at least 10 families from five or six dwellings were evacuated by boat Sunday evening.
Members of the police, fire and public works departments all answered the call for help. The fire department's dive and swift water rescue teams were dispatched to ferry the residents from their homes after the parking lot flooded. Water was about chest deep, O'Conor said.
O'Conor thanked Peachtree City First Baptist Church for opening The Bridge community center to the displaced families.
He said all the families were either able to return to their homes or found shelter with relatives and friends. No one was hurt, O'Conor noted.
"A large electrical transformer was under water," O'Conor noted, "so we called Georgia Power out to cut the power before the situation became hazardous."
This area, just west of Lake Peachtree on North Lake Drive at Flat Creek Road, has suffered flooding problems since its development more than 25 years ago.
"My guys say this was as bad as they've seen it in 15 or 20 years," O'Conor said.
Capt. Pete Nelms, spokesman for the Fayette County Department of Fire and Emergency Services said there were a few other minor flooding problems in the county Sunday, on Oak Street and Brittany Way, but nothing to the extent of the situation at Tinsley Mill.
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