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Rising Waters Pour into Moundville Homes
The mobile homes along County Road 46 sit downstream from a split in Elliott Creek, which was raging several feet above its banks. The creek was high enough to flood the northbound lane of Alabama Highway 69 near the center of town.
"If it keeps rising, then we're messed up," Ronnie Burroughs said as he looked at flood waters surrounding his home. Turns out, he was in trouble. The water made it into homes a few hours later.
Burroughs said it had been years since the waters had gotten so high.
"Back in '79 is the best I can remember. My son is 30 years old, and it was when he was born," he said.
"Well, it came up this fast, I mean, and we was having to get out," neighbor Dorothy Berry recalled of the '79 flood.
The flood of 2009 rushed into their neighborhood just as fast.
"I was going around in the trailer. As a matter of fact, I'm still cooking in there. It might be burned up now. But anyway, I looked up in the window, and it was kinda getting on up in the yard," Berry said.
The water was not her only concern.
"There's a lot of snakes out through there where the creek is," Berry said. "Them things is gonna float up here."
Berry was concerned about where she and her relatives and neighbors could stay for the night. She was looking for emergency shelter Monday evening.
On the Tuscaloosa County side of Moundville, flash flooding prompted water rescues along Old Greensboro Road earlier Monday. The churning waters, which were coming from a clogged up drainage creek, even washed out a road that neighbors had paved a few years ago with tar and roofing chips.
"That ditch has got trees, brush, debris, and everything in it," flooding victim Lou Smith said, hoping Tuscaloosa County leaders would clear out the creek like they cleared one nearby. "They need to do the same thing here. Then, they wouldn't have this problem."
People in both communities remained worried Monday evening as rain continues to be in the forecast for the next several days.
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