HIGH-LEVEL WATERS: Residents along Catawba River under flood advisory

Many backyards are extensions of the Catawba River.

Channel 9 captured photos of the high water levels.

[IMAGES: High waters at Mountain Island Lake]

Downpours continued day after day last week, flooding neighborhoods along the river.

Even though the sun is shining, the Catawba River areas between Lake Norman and Lake Wylie, including Mountain Island Lake, are under a flood advisory.

“The last one before it flooded, we got an inch and a half in 40 minutes,” said Gidget Dennehy, who has lived along the Catawba River for nine years.

Dennehy said she has been through three floods for as long as she’s lived there.

“It’s about 4 feet high,” she said. “We've seen it up 12 feet high, and that's when it gets dangerous.”

Dennehy said the flood hasn’t been as bad as previous ones, but it's something they still have to deal with.

“We do have to move docks out of the way and boats and be able to just be prepared for whatever comes over the dam,” she said.

Down the river, Mylene Clemente is dealing with her first flood experience since she moved there two months ago.

“Where the bench is? It was up past the seat,” she said. “It’s been very wet. Our boardwalk is generally above the water level, maybe a foot and a half, 2 feet.”

Mountain Island Lake was showing the highest lake levels Monday morning, it has crested and the level is slowly going down.

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