"Cars, front yards, and dog houses - all underwater." Alabama

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Lawrence County,

Cars, front yards, and dog houses - all underwater. Thunderstorms that swept through Lawrence County Tuesday morning are to blame. The wet weather created hazardous road conditions. A one-car accident on County Road 214 is proof. Rescue personnel on the scene say the car likely hydro-planed and landed into the ditch full of fast-flowing flood waters. An ambulance took the female driver to the hospital with minor injuries. Accidents weren't the only trouble caused by the stormy weather. Winds knocked down power lines and crews came out to make repairs and restore electricity. The storms also took aim at houses. At one home in the Chalybeate community, tree limbs are ripped from the trunk and trunks are snapped at the root. There are branches scattered all over the backyard, on top of the family's car, and the front yard is flooded. The man who lives at the home says it was much worse. "The fence is four feet tall and earlier when it stopped raining the water was completely over the whole fence, you couldn't see any of it," says Lawrence County resident Daniel Gray.

The town of Hillsboro was also hit hard. At Alexis McBay's home on County Road 53, her vintage car, once for sale, is now ruined. When the rain started pouring down, she scrambled to get her dogs to safety. "I had three dogs next door at my brother-in-law's house," explains McBay. "They were pinned up in their dog houses. I had to tear them down and turn them loose. I had to turn my dogs loose so they could fend for themselves." Flood waters consumed two different places in Lawrence County, but residents share the same sentiments. "I've never seen floodeing like that," says Gray. "I've been here for a year almost and this is the worst I've seen it," describes McBay. "This is the worst I've ever seen it. I knew of flooding, but I didn't know it was this bad." Residents say now all they can do is wait for the rushing waters to recede.
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