Flood still wet memory 10 years later - Kathy Jefcoats

I can't believe it has been 10 years since the Great Flood because I remember it so well. I was scheduled for surgery that week and spent a rainy Monday at the hospital in Macon getting pre-op tests run. Sometime that afternoon, all non-emergency surgeries in the city were canceled. It would be almost a year before I underwent that surgery but that's a whole other story.

The Ocmulgee River, which runs through Macon, rose to record levels, flooding the Macon-Bibb County Water Authority's treatment plant east of the city. Customers, including my family, were without running water for three weeks. Even now, thinking that a major city, one of the largest in the state, was actually without running water that long is mind-boggling.