ATLANTA — The work of linemen continues two days after the storm hit.
“We have about 14,000 linemen, actually more than 14,000 linemen out working,” said Matthew Kent with Georgia Power .
In the Georgia Power Storm Center, they are coordinating the many crews and sending them to places like a Brookhaven Street, where a tree fell on wires that then snapped this pole in half.
“About 3 o’clock in the morning, a big boom across the street,” said Phil Zinsmeisters. Saturday crews finally installing a new pole and brought them back online after a long two days.
“We’re getting a little tired of that, we’re not young folks it wears you down,” said Zinsmeisters.
But in DeKalb County’s Stonehenge neighborhood off Snapfinger Road, they are still waiting.
“I called them again a few minutes ago, ‘We’ll send somebody out,” said Hubert Lee. “When is somebody going to do something?”
A look at the tree that is lying on a power line, blocking Newcastle Circle shows cars can get underneath, but delivery trucks cannot get through and had to turn around.