More heavy rain leaves Canton homeowners vulnerable to flash floods

  • Source: WJTV 12 CBS
  • Published: 11/01/2019 12:00 AM

Homeowners in northern Canton communities are bracing for round two after waking up this morning to several feet of water engulfing their yards and streets from all the rain. But it’s not the first time locals have been burdened by flash flooding and want change. Streets like Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. and surrounding back roads are no stranger to flash floods and with more heavy rain in the forecast locals are urging the city to come up with new solutions. Sitting along the Batchelor Creek and downhill from drain ditches people in northern Canton had their eyes glued to the forecast Tuesday night. “The river is over by the ditch and it comes over into this neighbor’s yard,” Barbara Brown said. “And you see every time she has to put sandbags right at her door cause it goes in there.” Outside one man's house on MLK Dr. rain runoff filled up almost his whole front yard due to drain pipes busted leaving it nowhere to go.



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