(7 Aug 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Savannah, Georgia - 07 August 2024
1. Med a car stuck in flooded water
2. SOUNBITE (English) Will Alt, resident:
"We've got fish in here. That was down at his house yesterday, talking to him. The gentleman down here on the end. And I look down and there's guppies and fish swimming in the water. I'm assuming it came from either that lagoon, either this lagoon or that canal down there. But they've made their way into here. So that's how deep the water is coming from these areas. It was enough for the fish to swim into the neighborhood."
3. Alt walking in flooded water
4. SOUNBITE (English) Will Alt, resident:
"When I left here Monday afternoon or Sunday evening, Monday afternoon or Monday morning. The water, I mean, it was backing up out of the drains. But when I got back Monday, I think it was afternoon. It was flooded here. It was completely flooded all the way up to here. That's when I backed my Mustang out of here. I just I drove up the sidewalk, got the bat out of there, got my tow truck up there, and then from there, it just went completely back to that last segment of concrete up towards the house. That's as close as it got."
5. Med of Alt using a stick to check the drain
6. SOUNBITE (English) Will Alt, resident:
"I've never seen anybody come in to run these drains and make sure these drains are not clogged and that they have full points which I'm willing to lay odds that's part of the problem because I've never seen any crews in here doing, like, a Roto-Rooter thing or whatever, however they do it. I've never seen anybody come in and run these drains. Now, they could have done it from the other end. I don't know, but I've never seen anybody in neighborhood doing it."
7. Pan of a house surrounded by water
8. SOUNBITE (English) Keon Johnson, resident:
"Even before we bought the house, I was stationed over in Savannah and we always got hurricane warnings, but it was nothing ever made with nothing ever, you know, too crazy where I thought that I would be in it one day, stuck in the house, walking outside and seeing crawfish and little fish swimming around."
9. Wide of a flooded neighborhood
10. SOUNBITE (English) Keon Johnson, resident:
"Just kind of clean it up. But now, you know, it just smells like mildew all throughout the house. So, you know, asthma is acting all up. A lot of rain, a lot of winds, some roof damage in the back. A lot of retrieving items that, you know, floated away in a neighbor's yard. It's been a little tough, but, you know, we're kind of optimistic."

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STORYLINE:
Tropical Storm Debby has drenched coastal cities in Georgia and South Carolina and is not finished bringing heavy rain to the eastern U.S. Debby was centered just east of Savannah on Tuesday afternoon.

Charleston and Savannah, Georgia, took the first blow, with up to a foot (30 centimeters) of rain falling along the coast between the two cities in just over 24 hours.

In one Savannah neighborhood, residents say fish were spotted swimming in flooded water.

"Just kind of clean it up but it just smells like mildew all throughout the house. So, you know, asthma is acting all up," resident Keon Johnson said. "It's been a little tough, but, you know, we're kind of optimistic."

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