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Gainesville sets single-day rain record
6.6 inches reported in 24-hour period
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Gainesville set a record Tuesday for the most rainfall ever reported locally in a 24-hour period, according to the National Weather Service in Peachtree City. A cooperative observer using a National Weather Service gauge at Lake Lanier recorded 6.6 inches falling between 8 a.m. Monday and 8 a.m. Tuesday, meteorologist Alex Gibbs said. The National Weather Service has been preserving data through the observer program since 1892.
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Gainesville man arrested, charged with interfering with school bus after dropoff goes awry
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A Gainesville man was arrested after he followed a bus twice and held the bus doors open trying to get a child off the bus, according to authorities.
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