Heavy rain washes out roadway leading into Cobb County apartment complex

MARIETTA, Ga. — People in a Cobb County apartment complex had to find another way out of their homes Wednesday morning after heavy rain washed out the roadway to the main entrance.

Severe Weather Team 2 says anywhere from 2 to 6 inches of rain fell in the last 24 hours around Cobb, Forsyth, Gwinnett and north Fulton counties.

Channel 2′s Chris Jose went out to the Watermark Apartments on E. Lake Parkway in Marietta, where he found that about 15 to 20 feet of the road had washed away.

“It looked like something out of a movie,” said Tony Love, who lives in the complex. “We did get an alarm on our phone.”

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A culvert used to run under the road, but it couldn’t handle all the water.

“We could tell the water was getting up there. I thought it was a rain storm. I came out, it’s like a natural disaster,” neighbor Michael McKernan said.

Residents at the apartment complex said they currently don’t have water.

There is a second gate that residents at the complex can use to come and go.

Repair crews told Jose that it could take days, if not weeks to reconstruct the road.

Jose confirmed Wednesday afternoon that a worker was injured while trying to repair the massive hole. We’re still working to learn how that worker was hurt.

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