I have been out of pocket for a month now. Been up to my forehead in alligators. First, northern Georgia had the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in the United States. Our mountainous county received 24" of rain in three days that followed almost daily rainfall for a month. I was sued by the most evil law firm in the United States - Frederick J. Hannah and Associates. Look 'em up on the internet, if you don't believe me . . . Oh, and yes, my house was scheduled to be foreclosed on this past Wednesday. I have the most architecture work in three years, but the mortgage company is not interested in complying with the new laws on mitigation. HUD officials were trying to talk them out of it, but so far I have heard nothing from nobody, so I assume I will be heading to the high mountains soon, unless I hear otherwise. It's a good thing that I love to cross country ski! 
So I am in an insane situation was frantically packing while frantically designing a community baseball stadium! Oh and more good news. In Georgia, you can be evicted at any moment once the house is foreclosed. So at any moment, I could be moving to my new campsite in the Chattahoochee National Forest! Geez! What a catch I am for the womenz these days - at least my herd dogs love me.
Less you think I exhaggerated about the rains. here is the article in the AJC.
Federal officials: September's flood 'off the charts'
By Mary Lou Pickel
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Sept. 21 flood in Georgia was worse than what's statistically projected to happen once every 100 years -- even worse than every 500 years. It was "extremely rare", "epic" and so "stunning", the U.S. Geological Survey says the flood has defied its attempts to define it.
"This flood was off the charts," said Brian McCallum, assistant director for the U.S. Geological Survey's Georgia Water Science Center in Atlanta.
The Geological Survey does not quantify floods greater than a 500-year flood because the numbers begin to be too uncertain after that point, McCallum said.
According to the National Weather Service, some locations recorded up to 20 inches of rain from 8 p.m. Sept. 20 to 8 p.m. the following day.
"Normally we get just over 50 inches of rain in one year," McCallum said of metro Atlanta. "We got almost half our annual rainfall in one day in some places."
Scientists called the flooding in Atlanta one of the worst floods in the country in the last 100 years.
Flood waters washed away streamgages used to measure the water flow. In Douglas County, the Dog River flowed over the streamgage by 12 feet, roaring by at more than 448,000 gallons per second -- well beyond a 500-year flood, McCallum said.
All of that rain returned water levels in Lake Lanier and Allatoona Lake, to pre-drought levels. Lake Lanier rose by more than three feet after the flood and returned to full pool in October. Allatoona Lake rose to 13 feet over full pool.
"It takes a very large flood to end a very historic drought, and we certainly got that in September," McCallum said.
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