Lanier up almost 1.5 feet following torrential rains

The level of Lake Lanier is up 1.48 feet following torrential rains the past two days in Gainesville and in the Upper Chattahoochee Basin.   The reading was 1068.74 at 9:00 Tuesday morning at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers office at Buford Dam.

Lee Gilmer Airport in Gainesville recorded 4.87 inches of rain between midnight Saturday and midnight Monday.

There was some road and street flooding in Gainesville and elsewhere but no reports of any major problems that could be attributed to the weather.  The Forsyth County Sheriff's Office did report some road closings because of flooding.  Flood warnings and watches were posted by the National Weather Service for Hall, Forsyth and a number of other northeast Georgia counties but most of them had expired by 10:00 Tuesday morning.

(AccessWDUN'S B.J. Williams contributed to this story.)

Kemp Road in Forsyth County Monday. (Courtesy Forsyth Co. Sheriff's Office)

The Chattahoochee River rushes past Nora Mill in White County around 9:30 a.m. Monday. The headwaters of the river are near Helen. (Photo by Rob Moore)

The level of Lake Lanier increased 1.48 feet between midnight Saturday and Tuesday morning.

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