Less than 100,000 people remain without power on Monday morning, as crews from major utility companies continue restoring electricity after this weekend's winter storm.
As of 7:25 AM on Monday, December 11, Georgia Power said just about 5,046 affected customers still without power. At about the same time, Georgia EMC said over 19,000 customers remain without power.
Friday's storms knocked out power to large swaths of homes west of I-75, in the north Georgia mountains and in metro Atlanta.
Georgia electric cooperatives faced similar challenges with EMCs in Metro Atlanta and the north Georgia mountain counties appearing to have taken the biggest punch from the storms.
Georgia Power and the EMCs said they have "all hands on deck", trying to get workers to affected areas as quickly as possible, removing downed trees and dealing with other issues to get the lights back on.
According to Georgia EMC, the counties that have seen the most severe damage include:
- Cobb
- Carroll
- Cherokee
- Douglas
- Paulding
- Union
Other counties that have also been heavily impacted include:
- Bartow
- Douglas
- Forsyth
- Fulton
- Gilmer
- Lumpkin
- Habersham
- Hall
- Haralson
- Pickens
- Rabun
- Towns
- White
