The Brief
- More than 50,000 customers are without power in metro Atlanta after severe Saturday afternoon storms brought down trees and power lines.
- Fulton County has the most outages with more than 34,000 reported customers without power. Roswell Fire reported that a large tree fell onto a home. The department also reported it had numerous calls throughout the city of trees across roadways and into yards.
- The storms packed damaging 60 mph wind gusts, heavy downpours, and hail up to an inch in diameter across Fulton, DeKalb, and Gwinnett counties.
ATLANTA – More than 50,000 customers are without power across core metro Atlanta counties after strong storms brought down trees and power lines on Saturday afternoon.
What we know:
A line of strong storms combined over the metro area, prompting severe thunderstorm warnings for portions of Gwinnett, DeKalb, and Fulton counties between Roswell, Dunwoody, Doraville, Duluth, and Alpharetta. …