As the storm system that swept through the southeast crossed into Georgia early Sunday morning, residents in Greater Rome woke up to a familiar sight — pouring rain.

A record-breaking rainfall of 2.24 inches landed in the rain gauge at Richard B. Russell Airport Sunday. The previous record for Jan. 24 was 2.20 inches in 1920.

As a result, Rome and Floyd County officials reported several creeks and streams rose quickly and several roads were temporarily closed by high water, but they said there were no major problems caused by the weather.

“We had a lot of localized flooding because there was a lot of run-off, but I think the worst part moved through earlier today,” said Floyd County’s Emergency Management Agency Director Scotty Hancock late Sunday afternoon. “We’re hoping as the evening and night go on, the rain will taper off and things will recede and dry out a little bit. With this much rain, a lot of debris will be out there and clog some drainage systems, but there were only a few road closings and just a couple of trees down.”

Hancock said Floyd County was under several weather warnings and a wind advisory throughout the day Sunday, but by Sunday night, the heavy rains had been reduced to sprinkles and the winds had died down.

Jamie McCord, Rome’s public works director, said several city roads had to be closed temporarily during the day but most of them had re-opened by Sunday evening.

“In the East Rome area, we had several creeks that flooded, and John Davenport had to be closed for a while because of flash flooding, but it was not too bad,” McCord said.

“The only one still closed is the back side of South McLin Street because of the creek flooding, and it should be closed all night. But the ones closed earlier — like John Davenport, East 17th Street and East 18th Street — were all re-opened,” McCord said.

Michael Skeen, Floyd County’s public works director, said many county roads were also affected by flash flooding.

“Dugger Road in Armuchee is all we have closed,” Skeen said around 6:30 p.m. Sunday. “Everything else was just a little high water.”

Skeen said Dugger was the only road in the county that was actually closed, though there were 25 to 30 different locations with high water reported throughout the county.

“What we typically do is, if part of a road — say one lane — is just an inch or two deep, we don’t close the road,” Skeen explained. “The water needs to be about six inches flowing across the entire road before closing. The Dugger Drive area is a very flat area, so we usually head out there first because we know it will probably be a problem.”

He said the road should be passable by morning and crews would check its condition early Monday.

The Fulton Road area at Brewer Road in eastern Floyd County was also temporarily closed Sunday evening with high water flowing over the roadway, as was Plemmons Road at Wax Lake.

Skeen said crews temporarily closed part of Lyons Bridge Road to clean mud and debris from the pavement.

The National Weather Service issued a flood watch and wind advisory for much of North Georgia on Sunday. Some of metro Atlanta was also under a tornado watch during the day as the storm front moved across the state.

The stormy conditions caused delays that averaged about an hour at Hartsfield Jackson International Airport in Atlanta.