(Danville, Va.) — The clean-up continued on Riverside Drive Sunday after flash flooding in Danville trapped people in their cars and left Riverside Drive between Audubon Drive and Arnett Boulevard under several feet of water.

Local firefighters, police officers, and rescue workers directed traffic and pulled stranded motorists to safety after torrential rains pounded the city for a second time just before midnight Saturday.

A home collapsed on Water Street but the occupants were evacuated safely. Nearby, Mount Carmel Baptist Church was under about nine feet of water that reached the sanctuary on the second floor.

Woodall Chevrolet and the NAPA store had damage due to the flooding, with multiple cars damaged and flooding to the buildings.

One vehicle was fully submerged and three others were partially submerged on Timberlake Drive and Northmont Boulevard. Edwards Branch flooded on Fall Creek Drive and two homes were evacuated.

The National Weather Service reports that a tree fell on a house and several roads were washed out in the area. More than five inches of rain fell, damaging more than a dozen roads in Pittsylvania County.

More than 2,000 customers were without power at the height of the storms but Danville Utilities had restored service to all residential customers by 8:30 Sunday night. A contract crew is working on an underground transformer vault downtown. That outage has been isolated, with service restored to most downtown businesses.

 

 

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