This morning, at the crack of dawn, I braved the heat and humidity to walk down to see the flooding on Chief of Love Road.
A police car blocked one lane into the road, but folks could get around it to reach the non-flooded homes. However, cars were parked over the sidewalks in order to protect them from the water. They could be from the cut off Teal Lake area.
Or from the Fords Pointe townhouses, still accessible, but with flooded streets.
Our subdivision isn’t at risk because we’re at an elevation above the area. According to FEMA, we have zero chance of flooding. But after seeing how much of the area is flooded based on 8 inches of rain, and knowing that thanks to climate change, future hurricanes will drop more rain, I’m no longer so confident about our safety.
Thankfully, the Ogeechee river is starting to go down. Slowly. But homes have been flooded, so normalcy is a ways into the future.
And peak hurricane season for us isn’t until September.
