File this under “words you never want to hear from your local meteorologist.”
“This will be a great day to stay inside,” Channel 2 Action News’ Brian Monahan said Sunday. “Maybe a TV or movie kind of day.”
Steady was expected to continue throughout metro Atlanta on Sunday, and a National Weather Service flood watch for “much of north and central Georgia” went into effect at 4 p.m. Counties covered in the watch, which will be in place until Monday afternoon, include Fulton, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Cobb, Carroll, Rockdale, Newton, Douglas, Fayette, Barrow and Clarke.
Flood warnings were also in effect for the Big Creek area in Alpharetta and the Oconee River near Athens.
Heavier rain will develop overnight and into the Monday morning commute, Monahan said, and two to four more inches of rain could fall by Monday evening.
Channel 2 reported several fallen trees across the Atlanta area Sunday morning, including one that crashed onto a car and home on southwest Atlanta’s Dodson Drive. It landed over the bedroom of 2-year-old Molly Taylor.
“We just heard a loud crashing in the middle of the night, and the car alarm started going off, and the dog started barking, and we grabbbed Molly to see what was going on, and we saw the tree,” father Jacob Taylor said.
Downed power lines also closed Abbotts Bridge Road at Frankie Lane near Duluth, and a sinkhole was reported on Berkeley Road in Avondale Estates.
There is an 80 percent chance of rain Monday, with high temperatures expected to hit just 53 degrees. Wet weather will likely linger Tuesday morning before temperatures warm for the rest of the week, Monahan said.
Wednesday is expected to be sunny before a 40 percent chance of rain returns Thursday.
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