Atlanta Realtor Ennis Antoine may have had a little trouble sealing the deal at a Symrna house.
Afterall, not many people want the biblical Noah as a neighbor.
Antoine, a broker at Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate Metro Brokers, was showing a house in the craftsman-style Smyrna Gove community about 7 p.m. Saturday. It was already raining when they arrived, but then "the sky opened up and it just started storming."
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They spent less than half an hour inside the $425,000 house, but when they walked out the front door they were faced with a river of brownish red water rapidly flowing down the street.
It was high enough to reach the bottom of his white Infinity QX 56 SUV.
“I didn’t see the dirt, it was all water,” said Antoine. “I said this cannot be true!” He took off his shoes and rolled up his pants legs to wade to his vehicle. By then, he said, the water was above his knees.
Antoine posted a photo of his vehicle and a video of the flood on his Facebook page. He gave The Atlanta Journal-Constitution permission to use both.
A native of New Orleans, Antoine said he is used to streets flooding sometimes - just not in Smyrna.
He saw pieces of cardboard and wood floating down the street. "There are some serious drainage issues there," he said . "This is scary."
Bryan Ponder, development manager of Southeast Capital Companies, which developed the project explained the problem.
“Due to the intensity of the rain Saturday night the inlets were temporarily overwhelmed,” he said. “This is in part due to proper erosion control measures at the inlets. We are actively in process of cleanup in these areas.”
He later sent a photo of a cleaned up street.
Did he close the deal? “No,” he said laughing.
“She loved that subdivision,” Antoine said. “If you can get all that water in 30 minutes what happens in an hour?”
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