At least two people were killed by floodwaters in the U.S. state of Georgia and another person was believed drowned in Tennessee as rows of thunderstorms drenched the southeastern part of the country, submerging some highways in the Atlanta area and prompting flood warnings on Monday. Forecasters issued flood alerts for parts of Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Georgia as more rain fell after days of storms that have saturated the ground. As much as 50 centimeters had fallen in three days in the Atlanta metropolitan area. Emergency crews in the Atlanta suburb of Lawrenceville found a woman dead in her submerged vehicle after it was swept of a road by flooding Monday. Another fatality was reported in Douglas County, west of Atlanta, after a vehicle was washed off a road into a stream. The adult male driver was found downstream when the water receded. The storms closed school systems in five northern Georgia counties. Water also flooded houses, washed out some roads, and left standing pools on some busy Atlanta highways.
