How the Toccoa River topped the 18-foot mark

And this flooding all happened relatively quickly last night, unfolding in just a matter of hours. We now go to Fox 5 Storm Team Meteorologist Lauren Robinson, who is also in McKaysville for us tonight. Lauren, how did all this happen? Hey, Tom and Courtney, that's right. I'm also in McKaysville, not too far from where we just saw Ray Urena out. Let's go ahead and take a look, though, at some of that cleanup that's happening behind me. And we can backtrack a bit to see how this happened. But first, there's all of this debris that's piled up over the Toccoa River here. We go across the river and the power was recently turned back on. And as we take a look at the subway building here right on the river, you can see some watermarks where the flooding was over six feet tall. Along some of these areas, people were flooded out of their homes. Now here we get to, well, how did this happen? Over the last 24 to 48 hours, roughly since Tuesday night, McKaysville only saw two to three inches of rainfall. That's not jaw dropping, but areas just south of here, roughly Fannin and Gilmer counties, the Blue Ridge area, those areas saw six to nine inches of rainfall. And what happened? Well, it all moved from that high country down slope Into McKaysville in kind of a bowl-like Now let's move over to a map from NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This was released this morning showing the Toccoa River Gauge at record-breaking levels. It reached over 18 feet at 6 o'clock this morning, and that broke our previous record of just over Over 17.8 feet, 17.75, which was last set in 1990. In 1990, so. So again, the river is now starting to recede. Crews are hard at work to clean up all of the mess behind it. But as I was explaining, this is a flood-prone area and this continues to be a problem. So I'll be here through the rest of the afternoon tracking what's going on. Right now, reporting from McKaysville, I'm meteorologist Lauren Robinson for Fox 5 News. Yeah, Lauren, just incredible how quickly that flooding started to become an issue for people out there. Lauren, thanks.