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Oct 8, 20214 min
CRITICAL INCIDENT NOTIFICATION
FLOODING
A four-year-old girl and an 18-year-old woman are among four dead after flash flooding hit Alabama, leaving dozens submerged in their vehicles.
A couple were also found dead inside their car after their vehicle was swept away by the strong currents in Hoover, near Birmingham.
The girl, who has not been named, died by Haynes Road and Hickory Hill Road in Arab and her body was recovered at around 11.50pm on Wednesday night, the Marshall County Coroner said in a statement.
An 18-year-old woman was found dead at 7am on Thursday morning on Friendship Road in the Union Grove area, near Arab.
Meanwhile, two dead bodies, which have not been identified, were found inside a vehicle in Hoover after the car was washed away by the floods.
Photo Credit: Meterologist Dave Nussbaum
The vehicle had entered the flooded water near 1100 Riverchase Parkway West and was swept away before briefly landing on a guardrail, trapping the man and woman inside, reports AL.com.
But Hoover firefighters were unable to reach the car due to the 'raging flood waters' and within minutes, the authorities said the rushing waters pushed the vehicle over the guardrail into the creak below.
Hoover police department said additional crews were dispatched to the area to find the couple but were unable to find them.
The vehicle was found with two dead bodies inside, officials told AL.com. The car was found 300 to 400 feet from where they were washed off the road and the vehicle was submerged in up to 10 feet of water.
It comes after residents of Alabama were told on Wednesday to to stay at home after dire warnings of 'life-threatening floods'.
'MORE heavy rain (round 4 at least at this point) is forming & moving into areas already suffering from significant and life-threatening flooding,' tweeted the National Weather Service (NWS) Birmingham on Wednesday night.
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'Scanner traffic indicate numerous water rescues from vehicles and homes & roads submerged.'
The Birmingham metro area - which is home to 1.1 million people - was the epicenter of the floods after six inches of water fell in just one day. Experts warned that flooding was occurring even in areas that did not often see high water levels.
As much as six inches of rain fell in Alabama in about a day, unleashing flash floods.
Additional storms brought the threat of twisters to the Southeast.
Heavy rains after nightfall on Wednesday also caused flooding across north Alabama, with cars submerged on roads in metro Birmingham and parts of the Tennessee Valley.
Rescue crews helped motorists escape vehicles, and emergency managers said the combination of low visibility and standing water made travel life-threatening in some areas.
One Twitter user, Hilary Perry, said the flooding around her Hoover home was the worst she had seen in 41 years of living there.
In south Alabama near the Florida line, water covered streets in the flood-prone Escambia County towns of Brewton and East Brewton, inundating businesses in a shopping center with several feet of water.
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As much as three feet of water was inside the community's main grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, and two schools had to cancel classes, said Escambia Sheriff Heath Jackson.
'We're hoping that the rain is going to stop so we can get some of this water ... out of here and we can start getting into these businesses that have taken on water to see what we can do to help them,' Jackson told WKRG-TV.
To the south, in Baldwin County, as much as 250,000 gallons of waste water overflowed from sewage systems along Mobile Bay, officials said.
With rainfall totals already ranging from two inches to as much as six inches across the state this week, forecasters said another three inches of rain was possible, with the heaviest rains to the north.
Severe storms and a few isolated tornadoes from a slow-moving low pressure system were a threat, mainly in the afternoon, forecasters said.
The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch for northeastern Alabama, northwestern Georgia and southern Tennessee.
A flash flood watch covered most of Alabama and north Georgia, and forecasters issued flood warnings near a few rising creeks and rivers.
Rains should end by late Thursday as storms move eastward, forecasters said.
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Incident Number
2-211007-0902
Alert Type
Critical Incident Notification
Incident Type
Flooding
Incident Occurred
October 5, 2021
Alert Posted
October 7, 2021
6:54 pm CST
Last Updated
October 7, 2021
6:54 pm CST
Incident Location
Birmingham, AL
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