Update 2024-11-11: Roads closed after Valdosta flash flood 2024-11-10.

Update 2024-11-07: More Knob Hill Road sewage spills, Three Mile Branch, Valdosta 2024-11-07.

Flooding after hurricane: that’s what Valdosta got with 12 inches of rain overnight, November 6-7, 2024. This was apparently a long-distance of Hurricane Rafael in the Gulf. Only Valdosta got this foot-deep rain; nowhere else in the Suwannee River Basin.

Valdosta City Schools and Scintilla Charter Academy are closed today, and Lowndes County Schools are open.

South Health District Lowndes County will open late at noon. Lowndes County State Court arraignments are cancelled for today.

Lanier County got more than 6 inches of rain, but we have not heard of any roads closed or other closures in Lakeland or Lanier County.

We have not (yet) gotten any confirmed reports of sewage spills.

If you do see or smell a spill, or a flooded road or other concern, please send it to us and report it on Valdosta Click-n-Fix.
https://wwals.net/report/
https://www.valdostacity.com/report-a-concern

Twelve inches of rain, Valdosta flooding 2024-11-07, Houses flooded, roads closed, Valdosta Schools closed; Lowndes open

There is severe flooding in several areas, including the Chadwyck Subdivision, which is on Chadwyck Drive north of Inner Perimeter, between Barack Obama and Jacyee Shack, uphill from Knights Creek. This is reported by Becca Brewer and in a video by Keta Chapple, from a boat, showing cars and houses flooded.

Video Chadwyk Drive Flooding, mailbox, cars –Keta Chapple 2024-11-07

Other people reported houses flooded in other locations.

Scotti Jay reports One Mile Branch flooding at Wainwright Drive with trash and the old manhole still not fixed.

Trash on One Mile Branch at Wainwright Drive –Scotti Jay

Please do not drive through a flooded road. It only takes a few inches of water to wash your car away.

Car stalled out in high water. Then the creek pushed it off the road into ditch. –Scotti Jay

Roads reported closed or affected include US 84 eastbound at Inner Perimeter, eastbound at St. Augustine Road, affected at Leon Street, and westbound at Pecan Plantation Road, Inner Perimeter at VHS, Patterson Street at Drexel Park (apparently back open), St. Augustine Road at Hightower Creek and River Street with damage between Melody Lane Circle K and Cookout, Berkeley Road at Two Mile Branch, River Street upstream on Sugar Creek by Saunders, Country Club Road at Three Mile Branch (Williamsburg Drive), and Bemiss Road at Guest Road is closed.

Some of those may be back open.

Most of these were found via EMA Lowndes facebook page. A few came from the facebook group Lowndes County, Georgia Voices.

• “Bemiss Rd at Guest Rd is closed.”** That’s the road to Valdosta’s drinking water plant next to Cherry Creek.
• “Flooding on SR 38 Eastbound at INNER PERIMETER RD . All lanes closed.”† That’s US 84 next to Knights Creek, into Mud Swamp Creek with Valdosta’s Mud Swamp Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant.
• “Inner Perimeter is flooded at VHS across all lanes.”** That’s just south of E. Park Ave., near the top of Knights Creek.
• “Patterson is flooded at Drexel Park.”** That’s on One Mile Branch.
• “Country Club at 3 mile branch (Williamsburg) is flooded.”**
• “Berkeley Road: Water across the road.”* ** That’s at Two Mile Branch. Apparently back open.
• “Saint Augustine Road at Hightower Creek: roadway undermined.”*
• “Intersection of Saint Augustine Road and River Street: Flooded intersection.”* ** That’s on a branch of Sugar Creek.
• “River St is flooded at Saunders Park.”* ** That’s on a branch of Sugar Creek.
• “St Augustine between Melody Lane Circle K and Cookout has damage.”** Apparently they meant Lankford Drive Circle K (Lankford Drive turns into Melody Lane northeast across Gordon Street). That’s between Sugar Creek and Hightower Creek, which runs into Sugar Creek.
• “Intersection of Saint Augustine Road and US 84 Eastbound Lanes: Flooding affecting lanes heading into downtown.”* That’s at the top of the branch of Sugar Creek that goes by Saunders Park.
• “Flooding on SR 7 both directions at WISENBAKER RD . All lanes closed.”† That’s actually at Wisenbaker Lane, on South Ashley Street just south of the Jim Beck Overpass, near Dukes Bay Canal, which runs into Mud Swamp Creek.
• “Flooding affecting eastbound and westbound lanes of US84 near the intersection of Leon Street.”* That’s two blocks from the north branch of Dukes Bay Canal, which runs into Mud Swamp Creek.
• Oak Street flooded at Southside Recreation Center. That’s at Duke Bay Canal.
• “Flooding on SR 38 Westbound at PECAN PLANTATION RD. All lanes closed,” That’s US 84.† The location is in the watershed of Spring Branch, which runs by the Kinderlou golf course into the Withlacoochee River.
• Multiple reports say I-75 left lane southbound at Exit 13 was closed, but is apparently back open.

* According to Valdosta, A City Without Limits.

Use Caution –Valdosta A City Without Limits

** According to Lowndes County Schools.

† According to 511ga.org.

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