Many homes near Austell, Georgia are still under several feet of water today and at least one home was engulfed in flames after an explosion rocked the area in this community west of Atlanta.  Firefighters arrived on the scene shortly after the explosion at 11 a.m. which happened just one block from our Fox News Satellite Truck.  Smoke filled the sky, but the burning home was not reachable by fire crews.  All they could do was stand at the waters edge and let it burn.

Fox News Photographer Jeff Burton and Satellite Truck Operator Lance Craig were able to get video of the burning home using a boat.  They also found The Clayton Road Baptist Church across the street submerged in murky waters .

Yesterday the only sign of a neighborhood were the peaks of roofs barely sticking out of the muddy waters of a raging Sweetwater Creek near Austell, Georgia.  Today, the water has retreated enough to reveal some homes, cars and personal property still surrounded by water and covered in a thick layer of mud.

Residents slowly filed in this morning trying to see if they could reach their homes and survey the damage.  But many could only imagine from the edge of the flooded neighborhood what the inside of their houses look like as several remaining feet of water make many streets here impassable.

Barbara Robinson was one of the few that could actually get inside her home today.  She was sleeping Monday morning when a neighbor called to warn about the rising floodwaters that had overtaken her front yard and was quickly making it’s way up to her front door.

“And I got up and started looking around and the water came so fast, all I could do was get out with what I have on,”  she said.  ”I couldn’t save anything, the water raised so fast.”

The view from her living room through to her kitchen today shows how fast the water was moving as it rushed through her house.  Couches and chairs upended and pushed up against one wall.  Pictures and knick knacks that once adorned the mantle on her fireplace are stained with a mud-stained line showing how high the water actually got in her living room.  Her refrigerator on it’s side in the kitchen and countless personal items gone, probably washed miles downstream from her home.  Everything covered in muck.

“It’s a disaster.  Everything is destroyed, everything,”  Robinson says.

She says her neighbors across the street are required to have flood insurance, but adds that she was told she was just outside the flood plain when she bought the house.  Being uninsured, Robinson isn’t sure where to turn.  Her homeowners insurance already informed her that they won’t cover flood damage.  She’s hoping for help from State and Federal Relief Programs.

“Right now I have no place to go.  I am at a loss now, I don’t know what to do from here.”