Flooding on the Downtown Atlanta I-75/85 Connector - 9/21/2009

The downtown Interstate 75/85 connector running through the center of Atlanta, Georgia has been turned into a lake. This video was made around 4:30pm on 9/21/2009 after the afternoon rains let up. Several cars are stranded in the water and oncoming traffic is piled up.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• severe
• weather
• storm
• downtown
• atlanta
• georgia
• connector
• flooding

[ultraconservrepub]

Katrina was not Bush's fault either! mayor nagin was more at fault than BUSH. Why were there cars , buses and other forms of trans. floating in new Orleans ? Simple, nobody who stayed were smart but they will always blame BUSH! ...... IDIOTS !!!!!!

[cmoore0766]

it was an act of God......not Our President.....you are an working with a full deck

[chelsfayth]

wow I remember this. our entire basement was full of water up to my shins. power was out for two days. you couldn't go anywhere without a bridge/road being washed out or road closures. that was a nightmare

[SeanDnATL]

I remember that week, but never saw I-85/75 submerged like that. This has never happened before.

[johnIImodz]

@jeepers2655 You are obviously not from Atlanta or else you'd know that this has NEVER happened before. 20 inches of rain in 2 days will do this anywhere, and not just in a flood plain. Across the road from me was under 8-10 feet of water that day. Those were areas NOT in a flood plain. This was a 500 yr if not a 1,000 yr. flood.

[jeepers2655]

OK,you ALL need to move to higher ground and let the low lying areas stay in a flood plain.......just like New Orleans and other areas that have Levees......WHY would ANYONE want to live in an area that is lower than water???????

[codyhop193]

all you dumbasses please stop saying it was a presidents fault... are you fuckin stupid?? obviously u are...

[ROFLRemix123]

@hitohane I live in Kennesaw, 25 Miles N of Atlanta. But I still think Atlanta is being tortured by this. First, Hurricane Jean or whatever in '06 or '05 made Kennesaw have power loss. Next, the Tornado in Atlanta. We had half-dollar sized hail, and then last: This. We were fine, but we were 200 feet up at our house. You drive up 4 hills to get there. At the bottom, the road was under 5 feet o/ water.

[hitohane]

I think we all Georgians remember that day! However, I didn't realize that 75/85 was that bad on that day. The Mudslide on 78 was my biggest head ache besides all of the flooded roads in the Mountain Park area!

[ATLCoasterMan]

@ultraconservrepub

Kinda of like saying, the whole economic situation is the fualt of President Obama!!!

[I2FF2R]

In Minneapolis, some time ago, in July 1987, some spots in South Minneapolis received 6" and along the Edina / Bloomington ,MN border received 14" in 24 hours, with 11" in 6 hours.

[mazukdotcom]

I didn't even bother trying to go downtown after seeing what was going on via tv. I sat at home which rests on top of a hill and watched it in safety. No need venturing out and possibly getting stuck. :-)