Owners abandon flood-damaged homes
Rita Rivard-Carson, left, walks with neighbor Keely Ziegler as they walk at the end of their neighborhood, which was destroyed by the September 2009 floods Monday afternoon in Austell, Ga., May 24, 2010. Since the flood destroying most of the homes in her neighborhood, she's been drowning in mortgage payments. She's been advised to just walk away, but the obstacles she had to overcome to buy the home in 2005 makes walking away seem impossible. Jason Getz, jgetz@ajc.com
