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Illinois National Guard Sgt. Joey White climbs the temporary flood wall built on Main Street in Grafton, Ill., on June 8, 2019.\u00a0(Photo: David Carson, AP)<\/span><\/p>\n A large part of this damage can be prevented by new concepts under development.<\/p>\n You can make a difference and win a Africa Safari for your family worth over $ 13,000<\/p>\n Support The Firefly Innovations<\/p>\n Flooding that brought havoc to Oklahoma, Arkansas\u00a0and other states over the past two weeks was\u00a0sweeping east, threatening metro areas such as Atlanta; Nashville, Tennessee; Tallahassee, Florida; Columbia, South Carolina; and Charlotte and Raleigh in\u00a0North Carolina, AccuWeather said.<\/p>\n Thirty miles south of Atlanta, Amy Byars\u00a0said her neighborhood on Lake Peachtree appeared to have been absorbed into the lake.<\/p>\n “You could’ve ridden a boat through there,” Byars told\u00a0WSB-TV<\/a>. “There were ducks in their yards. We got to higher ground because I wasn’t going to risk my life.”<\/p>\n The rains that rolled into the region will linger at least until Monday. Some areas could get a foot of rain, double or even triple the normal rainfall for June, AccuWeather said.<\/p>\n Parts of central Georgia saw\u00a06 inches of rain in a 24-hour period that ended early Sunday, and\u00a0up to 2 more inches is possible, the National Weather Service reported.<\/p>\n “Flooding along rivers already out of their banks could become worse,” the National Weather Service warned.<\/p>\n Athens, home to the University of Georgia,\u00a0reported 1.59 inches of rain in one hour;\u00a0nearly an inch of that fell in 20 minutes. Mayor Kelly Girtz said some residents have emailed him photos of yards that have turned to ponds.<\/p>\n “It is always challenging when so much rain falls so quickly,” he told USA TODAY. “Athens is like many towns with older areas\u00a0supported by infrastructure built prior to contemporary standards, so the volume of water we have experienced has overwhelmed some neighborhoods.”<\/p>\n The weather forced some vendors to fold their tents at the city’s\u00a0iconic Hot Corner Celebration and Soul Food Fest, which draws thousands to the historic African American business district. 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