{"693771":{"#nid":"693771","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Hurricane Isaias: Torrential rainfall to bring flooding threat to metro Atlanta","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWith a hurricane threatening to bring heavy rain to parts of the Southeast, officials are preparing for potential flash flooding across metro Atlanta, where past storms have shown how quickly rising water can turn dangerous.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/handlos-zachary\u0022\u003EZachary Handlos\u003C\/a\u003E, director of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, said the region\u2019s development can make flooding worse, even when rainfall totals are relatively low.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBeing in a major metro area, we have a lot of paved surfaces, so it really only takes an inch or two inches of rain to have minor flooding events,\u201d Handlos said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERoads, parking lots and buildings prevent rainwater from soaking naturally into the ground. Instead, water runs across paved surfaces and collects in streets and drainage systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHandlos compared the effect to an ice-skating rink, where water has limited places to go and flows from higher elevations to lower ones. That can leave low-lying roads and neighborhoods vulnerable when heavy rain falls faster than the drainage system can handle.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWith a hurricane threatening to bring heavy rain to parts of the Southeast, officials are preparing for potential flash flooding across metro Atlanta, where past storms have shown how quickly rising water can turn dangerous.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/handlos-zachary\u0022\u003EZachary Handlos\u003C\/a\u003E, director of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, said the region\u2019s development can make flooding worse, even when rainfall totals are relatively low.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBeing in a major metro area, we have a lot of paved surfaces, so it really only takes an inch or two inches of rain to have minor flooding events,\u201d Handlos said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERoads, parking lots and buildings prevent rainwater from soaking naturally into the ground. Instead, water runs across paved surfaces and collects in streets and drainage systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHandlos compared the effect to an ice-skating rink, where water has limited places to go and flows from higher elevations to lower ones. That can leave low-lying roads and neighborhoods vulnerable when heavy rain falls faster than the drainage system can handle.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2026-11-04 17:32:03","changed_gmt":"2026-11-05 14:44:16","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"WSB-TV","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/hurricane-isaias-torrential-rainfall-bring-flooding-threat-metro-atlanta\/VXVM2B3URREHLO3ZL4JD2XB7CM\/","dateline":{"date":"2026-10-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-10-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"1860","name":"hurricane"},{"id":"192254","name":"cos-climate"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}