Heavy rains moved through the area overnight and into the morning hours.  Reports from around Chattooga County today indicated that anywhere from 3.5 to close to 5 inches of rain fell which led to flooding problems.

A Flood Warning for the Chattooga River expires at 5:10 PM Wednesday evening. The National Weather Service in Peachtree City, Georgia has issued a Wind Advisory until 7 PM.  At 4 PM this afternoon the Chattooga River was at 13.87 feet -flood stage is 14 feet. This afternoon, the National Weather Service added a Special Weather Statement saying the higher elevations of Chattooga County could see some snow showers this evening.  The winter precipitation would only be for areas above 1500 feet in elevation. Any accumulation will be less than an inch.

The effects of the rain are still being felt across the county this evening.  Chattooga 911 says that Giles Road near Highway 337 in the Teloga Area remains closed due to flooding.  Also on Neal Gap Road in the Teloga area, there is flooding that is making travel hazardous.  Earlier this afternoon, officials removed the barriers on Peach Orchard Road in Menlo and reopened the road for traffic.  County public works crews were working on Blowing Springs Road in Menlo to clean up flood debris in the road this afternoon.

Throughout the day, multiple roads and city streets had standing water, but Trion Mayor Lanny Thomas says that recent work by the Town of Trion in the Park Avenue area helped alleviate the flooding.  The mayor told WZQZ News that the area appeared to be draining well during today’s heavy rains.  There were some flooding issues in the Simmons Street area earlier this morning.

Georgia Power continues to work on some power outages in Chattooga County.  The largest outage from earlier today was in the Holland Area, where around 62 customers were affected.  Power was restored to that area this afternoon.  An outage off Stoleman Road in Trion and another on Jenkins Gap are expected to be restored before midnight tonight.  An outage near Wayside Baptist Church on Sloppy Floyd Lake Road still did not have an estimated restoration time as of 4:30 PM this afternoon.

North Georgia EMC worked multiple power outages in neighboring counties but did not report any power outages in Chattooga County throughout the day on Tuesday.

The strong storms last night and today stretched across Georgia and there was one fatality reported.  Officials in Clayton County, Georgia reported that a person died when a tree fell on their car.  Reports say that the victim was driving on Fayetteville Road when the tree fell across a lane of traffic and struck the car.  That accident happened about 10 o’clock this morning.

Looking ahead at the forecast for the rest of the week, we could see another round of strong storms and heavy rain as we end the workweek on Friday, but rain amounts with that system are not expected to be as heavy as they were last night and today.