Rudy Pierre-Paul, his wife, Amie, and their three children, never really thought about the creek hundreds of yards behind their house in a Powder Springs subdivision.
A tall fence marks the edge of their back yard, which slopes downhill away from the house. The creek is not even visible beyond the fence, but is 300 to 400 yards away.
“We never had trouble with the creek,” said Pierre-Paul, who is the chief medical technologist at Grady Memorial Hospital.
The morning of the flood, he woke up about 6:15 a.m. to take the children to school. But school was cancelled due to the weather.
“Then I noticed the water slowly rising in the back yard. It was still dark. Around 7:30 and 8 o’clock, when the sun started to come up, I noticed the water rising fast—really fast—behind the house.
”Even now he can’t believe what happened at the home where they have lived for nine years after moving here from New York.
“I was on top of a hill. I would say there is no way the water could get here,” Pierre-Paul said, as he recounted how he next headed to a nearby Home Depot to buy some sandbags.
By the time he came back, water had surrounded his home. On the bottom level, the force of the water bent a door in the family’s two-car garage. He was able to drive the family’s cars to a higher elevation nearby.
“When I opened up the garage, the water gushed in.”
Tree stumps that he had cut down and put on the other side of the back fence became buoyant and floated over the fence back into the yard.
As the family took shelter on the second floor of the home, the lower level, with a bedroom, bathroom, his home office, family room and laundry room, as well as the garage, flooded. Water reached about four feet deep and destroyed all the furniture, appliances and clothes there as well as the carpets, flooring and sheetrock. As he slogged through the water to turn off the power, he felt something pass by and saw two snakes swimming along. He trapped them behind a closed door downstairs.
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A tall fence marks the edge of their back yard, which slopes downhill away from the house. The creek is not even visible beyond the fence, but is 300 to 400 yards away.
“We never had trouble with the creek,” said Pierre-Paul, who is the chief medical technologist at Grady Memorial Hospital.
The morning of the flood, he woke up about 6:15 a.m. to take the children to school. But school was cancelled due to the weather.
“Then I noticed the water slowly rising in the back yard. It was still dark. Around 7:30 and 8 o’clock, when the sun started to come up, I noticed the water rising fast—really fast—behind the house.
”Even now he can’t believe what happened at the home where they have lived for nine years after moving here from New York.
“I was on top of a hill. I would say there is no way the water could get here,” Pierre-Paul said, as he recounted how he next headed to a nearby Home Depot to buy some sandbags.
By the time he came back, water had surrounded his home. On the bottom level, the force of the water bent a door in the family’s two-car garage. He was able to drive the family’s cars to a higher elevation nearby.
“When I opened up the garage, the water gushed in.”
Tree stumps that he had cut down and put on the other side of the back fence became buoyant and floated over the fence back into the yard.
As the family took shelter on the second floor of the home, the lower level, with a bedroom, bathroom, his home office, family room and laundry room, as well as the garage, flooded. Water reached about four feet deep and destroyed all the furniture, appliances and clothes there as well as the carpets, flooring and sheetrock. As he slogged through the water to turn off the power, he felt something pass by and saw two snakes swimming along. He trapped them behind a closed door downstairs.
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