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July
6, 1994
Death
toll from Alberto stands at 13, all in Georgia, and expected to
rise.
Gov. Zell Miller declares 30 counties state disaster areas and calls
out the Georgia National Guard to patrol flooded areas.
Seven are dead and three presumed dead in Sumter County from flash
flooding on roads and in homes. Several dozen homes are destroyed.
Muckalee Creek and Town Creek flood, numerous pond dams break, flooding
all roads into Americus and isolating it. Eighty dogs and cats drown
when animal shelter floods to ceiling. Most power restored, but
no water service because mains break when roads wash away. Two houses
burn for lack of water. Curfew imposed. Two hundred people prepare
to spend the night at Lebanon Baptist Church in Plains.
Marines join the Georgia Army and Air National Guard in sandbagging
and evacuating Albany residents. More than 15,000 residents warned
to leave.
Macon is virtually cut off. Interstates 16, 75 and 475 shut down
because of flooding; many secondary roads impassable. Second Street
Bridge only access to downtown from the east. Water plant floods
and shuts down, leaving residents without water for 19 days. Residents
downstream from Lake Tobesofkee evacuate as water nears top of dam;
floodgates reopened. Prisoners sandbag Otis Redding Memorial Bridge.
Levee below bridge breached, washing out 350-foot section and sending
water into Central City Park and 40-block industrial area. Water
threatens landfill, sewage treatment plant and electrical substation
powering most of downtown, including three hospitals.
Downtown Montezuma inundated in less than an hour after dam bursts
to north, creating parallel channel to flooded Beaver Creek.
More dams break in Houston County: Leisure Lake's second dam, Houston
Lake, Lake Joy. Perry cut in half. Interstate closed from Macon
to Cordele. Hundreds of interstate travelers stranded. Shelter opens
at Northside High School in Warner Robins.
Flooded Echeconnee Creek to east and Flint River to west sever roads
into July 6.
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