More Flooding

Last night's rain have created even more flooding problems in our area and tempted drivers to do what they shouldn't do.

The tennessee valley and north georgia have dealt with heavy rain and flooding throughout the morning.

Some roads in our region are still blocked off and considered impassible.

News 12's winston reed is live in chattanooga with a look at the road conditions.

Numerous roads in the tennessee valley and north georgia are facing the same issues as this are off of gunbarrel road.

High waters and severe flooding.

Officals in both states have a central message, turn around, don't drown.

Submerged roads are not uncommon in hamilton county.

"we've got certain areas that flood on a regular basis when we get this kind of rain."

Chattanooga fire battalion chief chris warren urges drivers to not cross high waters.

It can prevent first responders from handling other emergencies and it puts them in harms way.

"it's very frustrating.

It's also dangerous to our personel because when you walk in flood waters you don't know what's in flood waters."

In dalton georgia, some drivers took that chance anyway.

"it seems like everytime we have something like this, people, especially with trucks or suv's think they can get across.

You really can't tell how deep the water is in an event like.

We always have people that seems to get stuck and maybe even need to get rescued."

Spokesperson for the city of dalton bruce fraziers says more flood is possible over the next 48 hours.

The biggest thing right now is that the water table in dalton has not reset from the heavy rains we had last thursday and over the weekend.

So it might take a little bit longer for it to dry out this time."

In chattanooga, winston reed, news 12