Severe weather from Hurricane Delta rolled into Hall and Habersham counties on Saturday

HALL COUNTY, Ga. — Severe weather from Hurricane Delta made its way into metro Atlanta Saturday evening. Strong winds and heavy rains hit Hall and Habersham counties extremely hard.

Channel 2′s Tom Regan went to both areas to survey the damage.

During the peak of the storm, Habersham county was pounded with 9-10 inches of rain in one hour. The downpour caused heavy flooding within the county.

'We had to use boats and four wheelers", said Lynn Smith, EMA director of Habersham county. “We had people trapped in homes, on top of homes. We have a couple of homes destroyed because of flood waters,”

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Heavy rain made its way into neighboring Hall county.  The rains washed out Hensley Road.  Engineers estimate it may take three weeks to repair and reopen the road.

The rain from Delta fell so fast that it trapped numerous people in a mobile home community in Hall County.  Hall county EMA rescued nearly 2 dozen people that were trapped because of the rising waters.

No severe injuries were reported.

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