Hurricane Isaias moved away from Georgia after knocking out electricity across North Atlanta, damaging trees and power equipment and disrupting weekend plans.
The storm’s greatest local effect was not the catastrophic flooding once considered possible. It was the broad trail of wind-related outages left across Fulton, Gwinnett, DeKalb and Forsyth counties.
By 2 p.m. Saturday, about 50,000 Georgia customers were without electricity. That included approximately 4,300 customers in DeKalb County, 2,500 in Gwinnett and 2,000 in Fulton…