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Bartow County's Epic Flood
9/25/2019 (Permalink)
You can see in this picture how high the water rose from the waterlines left on this ranch style house.
Ten years ago, almost to the day, North Georgia experienced massive rainfall that caused some major flooding. This is a rare event for most of North Georgia due to the topography and proximity to major bodies of water. Over the course of six to seven days, bands of heavy rain dumped up to 20 inches of water over several counties in North Georgia. This was truly a historic weather event, breaking flood records for North Georgia ranging back to 1919 and claiming at least ten lives. The Chattahoochee River crested 500-year flood levels
Damages were estimated to number into the hundreds of millions of dollars with an estimated 20,000 homes and businesses receiving major damage. Federal Disaster Declarations were issued for 17 Georgia Counties: Bartow County, Catoosa County, Cherokee County, Stephens County, Cobb County, DeKalb County, Douglas County, Fulton County, Gwinnett County, Heard County, Newton County, Coweta County, Paulding County, Rockdale County, Carroll County, Chattooga County, and Walker County. 100 year Flood levels were reached by the Chattahoochee River and many of its tributaries, causing massive flooding along the river banks and damaging homes and businesses. Low lying areas were particularly susceptible to water damage and were victims of some of the most severe flooding.
Recovery efforts started immediately once the flood rains subsided. SERVPRO of Bartow County pitched in to help our community. SERVPRO of Bartow County is a locally owned and operated company so our customers often times turn out to be our neighbors or fellow members of our community. So we treat our customers the way we want to be treated, with honesty and respect. We were able to work with homeowners with financing where needed and helped customers file claims with their insurance company. In a couple of cases were can even save homeowners from filing a claim in the first place.