Georgia Power Outage: Why Thousands Lost Power Across Northeast Georgia This Weekend
Severe storms swept through northeast Georgia on Saturday night, leaving tens of thousands without electricity as trees toppled and power lines came down. At the peak of the outage, nearly,000 customers were in the dark across Hall, Dawson, Stephens, Lumpkin, Banks, and Habersham counties, with Georgia Power and local EMC crews racing to restore service. By Sunday evening, crews had managed to cut the number of outages in half, but thousands were still waiting for power as roads remained blocked by debris. Hall County alone reported over,500 outages, while Dawson and Stephens counties each...
