Six Flags theme park under water as flooding hammers Atlanta | World news

Tue 22 Sep 2009 14.24EDT First published on Tue 22 Sep 2009 14.24EDT Photograph: John Bazemore/AP Photograph: Erik S Lesser/EPA Photograph: John Bazemore/AP Photograph: Jessica McGowan/Getty Photograph: AP

Six Flags theme park under water as flooding hammers Atlanta

22 September 2009: Torrential rainfall in the south-east US has claimed at least eight lives

Tue 22 Sep 2009 14.24 EDT First published on Tue 22 Sep 2009 14.24 EDT

  • A rollercoaster at Six Flags theme park is flooded in Austell, Georgia. Record amounts of rainfall resulted in flooding across the south-east US

  • A large home is flooded in the Buckhead neighbourhood of Atlanta, Georgia

  • A truck is submerged in flood waters in Mableton, Georgia. Days of downpours and thunderstorms saturated the ground of states in the south-east just months after an epic two-year drought

  • A car sits submerged on a flooded portion of a road in Atlanta, Georgia. Sonny Purdue, Georgia's governor, has declared a state of emergency in 17 counties

  • Water reaches near the roofs of homes in Mableton, Georgia. "It's a mess all over," said Lisa Janak of the Georgia Emergency Management Agency

  • Peter von Wismar walks under a fallen tree in front of his home in Atlanta. Hundreds of roads and bridges are under water or washed out in the Atlanta area and other parts of Georgia
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