MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Neighbors told WREG the flooding on Stoneham in Whitehaven was nearly waist deep Friday morning.
They said the fire department was called in, and they were preparing for the worst.
“It never got like this before,” said one neighbor looking at all the water.
It wasn’t the beach, but there were waves as cars drove down the street.
Vernon Golden said the rain was so heavy, he couldn’t see anything outside.
Then he watched from his porch as water started coming up his driveway.
He thought his family may have to make a quick escape.
“Everybody started praying then for the Lord to save us and keep us from any harm,” he recalled.
The street backed up to a creek.
Other neighbors watched as the water got higher and said it came close to coming inside their homes.
Floodwater also got very close to homes in the Brookhaven subdivision in Southaven.
For a time, police had to block off Rasco Road at Whitebrook.
All of that rainwater made it difficult for drivers all across the Mid-South.
On Winchester and Millbranch in Memphis, water poured right through a manhole, and a stalled driver needed a push from a garbage truck to get through the intersection at Winchester and Getwell.
Though it wasn’t the way people wanted to start off their holiday weekend, many we spoke to said they were just glad it wasn’t any worse.