Thomasville Fire-Rescue personnel removed people from houses on Parramore Street midday Thursday when flood water rose in the neighborhood.

Police Lt. Eric Hampton helped a woman from her stalled vehicle at Fern and Wright streets. “The water was over the bottom of her door,” the officer explained.

Caution signs were erected at Martin Luther King Drive and Alexander Street and at Clay and Crawford streets when the downpour flooded the intersections.

City crews were kept busy removing debris from clogged storm drains throughout the city.

The nasty onslaught of weather was delivered by a series of large storms that developed over the Pacific Ocean and moved east. The first onslaught was Saturday.

“The last couple of storms stalled over us,” said Mark Wool, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Tallahassee, Fla. “We’ll be under the gun again Sunday and Sunday night.”

Since Saturday and through noon Thursday, the weather service recorded nine inches of rain, Wool said.

The storms are intense and deep, with more energy and rain and chances of severe thunderstorms.

Strong jet streams, coupled with cold weather to the north and warm weather in South Georgia and North Florida, make ideal storm conditions.

Another round is on tap for next Thursday.

“It hasn’t happened like this in several years,” Wool said.

Senior reporter Patti Dozier can be reached at (229) 226-2400, ext. 220.