Serous Flooding in + Around Montgomery
When big, mean thunderstorms decide to stop for a rest, it always spells trouble.
That is what happened this morning across several counties around the Montgomery area.
Serious flash-flooding was occurring in Downtown Montgomery and the state capitol was closed.
Not just downtown Montgomery. Jason Simpson received a report that 7.10 inches has already been measured at a location in East Montgomery.
Another report via the EMA and NWS is that US 231 North of Montgomery at Wetumpka that a mudslide has closed the north bound lane at the rest area.
These are the same thunderstorms that took almost all night to take their time slowly migrating from North Alabama to the Montgomery area where they are now taking a long pause. Maxwell Air Force Base got 1.51 additional rain just between 9 am and 10 am.
NWS maintains a Flash Flood Warning until at least 1:30 for parts of these counties:
Montgomery
Barbour
Bullock
Macon
Pike
Russell
May 7th, 2009 at 11:29 am
Our boys are on their way home. They’ll go back tomorrow at 10am and try again for game three.
May 7th, 2009 at 11:57 am
It is still pouring down rain here in downtown Montgomery. This is just unbelievable. You’d think a tropical storm was sitting on top of us here.
May 7th, 2009 at 11:58 am
It is still pouring down rain here in downtown Montgomery. I work across the street from the state capitol on Monroe Street, and while it’s not really flooded here, it is just up behind the capitol building not even a block away from here.
May 7th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
any one know conditions at Halcyon Summit?
May 7th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
I am currently in N. Montgomery near the coliseum & Bonnie Crest Country Club. My house started taking on water right before 9AM. Have 2″ in laundry/storage room, kitchen, master bedroom, and part of my dining room. It is no longer raining and I hope it is for good, the house just stopped taking in water.
May 7th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
jpe86 – Saw a report on Twitter from Montgomery TV that there has been 8″ of rain at Taylor & Vaughn Roads, that is pretty close to Halcyon…
May 7th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
I work on the north side of Montgomery, close to the Coliseum. At 9:30-10:00AM, Coliseum Blvd was flooded in front of the Winn Dixie shopping center. A couple other roads I tried had flooding as well including Traffic Operations Drive. Ive heard reports of flooding on other sections of Coliseum Blvd, along with Carmichael and Bell roads.
May 7th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Good luck to everyone in the effected areas this morning! I hope the rain doesn’t cause too much damage. Now is a great time to be dragging out those homeowner’s insurance docs to see if they cover for flood damage!! It’s amazing how few policies do protect in case of floods. Of course, I live on top of Oak Mountain, so for me, flooding would be the least of my worries. Again, good luck and stay safe.
On another note…I’m good with the rain for a while. We’ve had WAAAAY more this year at this point so far than any of the past several years. No major inconvenience, but I’m a sunshine lover. The gloom really gets me down.
May 7th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
tried to send some pics of the flooding by the Capital to pictures@abc3340.com and I got an error email back from Flickr. Guess you’ll all have to miss out – but there’s reports down here of a boat rescue at the mall and a submerged car in a ditch that had someone inside of it. I really try hard to never complain about rain, but I’m wavering on the edge…
May 7th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
If anyone would like to see the flooding photos here in the tri-county area, they are up on WSFA-12′s website here: http://my12.wsfa.com/vmix_hosted_apps/p/grid?all=1&class_id=2
May 7th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Is there any commercial buildings flooded