The steady heavy rain caused many streets and highways in the metro area to flood Thursday night into Friday morning.
Triple Team Traffic’s Mike Shields is reporting on several crashes as the morning commute starts. Shields urges drivers to delay their commutes until conditions improve.
Triple Team Traffic live updates every 10 minutes, on Channel 2 Action News This Morning from 4:30 a.m. to 9 a.m.
Channel 2’s Darryn Moore is live on Pharr Road, where the Buckhead street is blocked off until the water can recede. A flash flood warning is in effect for Fulton County until 6:30 a.m.
Moore saw at least two cars get stuck in the water. One of the drivers said the fire department came to his rescue.
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“There was a car in front of me. Then my car got stuck. It died in the water,” Christian Bensah told Moore.
Bensah lives in the area and been here for more than a decade and said this has never happened before.
Severe Weather Team 2 and Triple Team Traffic says remember to “turn around, don’t drown” if you come across a flooded road.
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