The rain projected for Thursday and Friday didn’t amount to much at all, at least in Cobb County, where the only road still shut down from last week’s storms has now reopened.
Around 6 p.m. Cobb government announced that Columns Drive, located off Johnson Ferry Road and along the Chattahoochee River, has been reopened to traffic.
For the last week, it was shut down between Atlanta Country Club Drive and Willow Knoll Drive after heavy rains left the area heavily saturated.
As the Cobb DOT photos show, the standing water remained due largely to clogged drains.
Cobb government said rangers from the nearby Chattahoochee National Recreation Area, furloughed due to the partial federal government shutdown, helped clear up a clogged drain at the end of Columns Drive.
Crews also had to clear away a beaver-caused clog, and that helped drain away a good bit of water.
Cobb had been under a flash flood watch through Friday, but very little rain occurred after the morning.
Sunshine is in the forecast for the weekend, with partly cloudy skies and highs in the high 50s on Saturday.
Sunday will be sunny with highs in the mid 60s.
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