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At least $500 million. Areas affected. Northern Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas. The September 2009 Southeastern United States floods were a group of floods that affected several counties throughout northern Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas. The worst flooding occurred across the Atlanta metropolitan ...
Lake Lanier (officially Lake Sidney Lanier) is a reservoir in the northern portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. It was created by the completion of Buford Dam on the Chattahoochee River in 1956, and is also fed by the waters of the Chestatee River. The lake encompasses 38,000 acres (15,000 ha) or 59 sq mi (150 km 2) of water, and 692 mi (1,114 ...
It was carried downstream but intact in 1946, by a major flood on February 7. Divers have reported it still intact under 120 feet or 36.5 meters of Lake Lanier, which filled the river a few years later. Browns Bridge Road (part of Georgia 369) still exists east of Georgia 9 at Coal Mountain. Just upstream of the original bridge location, a ...
August 26, 2024 at 9:28 AM. courtesy of Lanier website. A young woman seems lost and scared in the dark, trying to escape a masked figure who is relentlessly after her. She trips, screams and is ...
Levels in Lake Lanier have gone up and down at times in its history, but the lake’s elevation has remained fairly steady so far this year, data from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers shows.
Foster’s 11-year-old son was killed at the lake in the summer of 2012 after a boater struck him while he was floating in an inner tube. “Lake Lanier has a dark and sordid past, marked by ...
Tri-state water dispute. Chattahoochee River in Norcross, Georgia, downstream from Lake Lanier and Buford Dam. The tri-state water dispute is a 21st-century water-use conflict among the U.S. states of Georgia, Alabama, and Florida over flows in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin and the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin.
Oscarville is a ghost town in Forsyth County, Georgia. Oscarville, a majority-Black town, is most famous for being a central location in a series of violent crimes and racially motivated riots that happened in 1912, driving away most of the Black residents in Forsyth County. In 1950, the remnants of the town were flooded during the construction ...