The Flood of Middle Georgia

The Flood of middle Georgia occurred in 1994 and over 500 were evacuated from their homes in downtown Macon. In the entire flood took 18 lives. Because of the flood a levee near the Otis Redding Bridge south of the industrial park ended up breaking. In order to fix this problem, the Savannah District of the U.S. Army Corps gathered over 20,000 sandbags to help support the fallen levee. City Workers and even inmate were frantically stacking the sandbags selected to stop the flooding. The two interstates that were affected by the flood were I16 and I75. They actually became shut down which had never happened before and causing a shortage of water, food, and supplies in other counties. The reason for this shortage was because the flood took their main transportation. The flood was a huge disaster for the people in middle Georgia simply because so many people were affected.