Heavy rains flood Mobile

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Heavy rain caused trouble for residents across Mobile County.

A weekend deluge left what looks like a lake in the front of one house on Dawes Lake Road.

A dam break in the area caused some small lakes and ponds to overflow.

"This little small pond down here, it was up close to the road, but it didn't come over the road," Brad Davis said.

Davis lives on Nugget Drive. He said the water didn't cover that road, but his neighbor's private drive was cut off by flood waters.

"It's been flowing every since about 5 o'clock this morning," Davis said.

Doyle Taylor has been dealing with storm water runoff problems on Lakeview for years.

Taylor said "This house almost flooded this morning, but we had to move some stuff around to get the water to flowing better."

Saturday morning, he got a double dose of rainwater headache.

"It covered this whole area here, and went across the street." Taylor said.

Water nearly covered an abandoned house on Schillinger Road.  The house was scheduled to be torn down, but the rain left it, along with a nearby bulldozer, underwater.

Along Old Pascagoula Road, the rain washed away the road and dirt covering some pipes. The water also crept it's way up to the doorstep of a home in the area

Fortunately, there were no reports of major damage in the west Mobile area.

But the bad weather isn't over yet. More rain is expected to come in from the West. Pensacola is expecting to reach a total of 30 inches of rainfall from this weekends rain event.