About 3,000 Dade County residents were among Georgians still without power Tuesday after severe thunderstorms, high winds and tornados moved through the area beginning on Good Friday and continuing through Monday.
Dade County Executive Ted Rumley said his office was receiving a steady stream of calls to report outages and asking when power would be restored.
“Georgia Power has 10 contract crews working all over the county,” Mr. Rumley said. “Outages are not in any one particular place.”
Officials said they hoped 90 percent of the affected areas would have power restored before sundown last night. For the rest, electricity should be restored before sunrise today.
Of North Georgia Electric Membership Corp.’s 99,000 customers in seven counties, about 20,000 were without power immediately following the storm, company spokesman Jeff Rancudo said.
By Tuesday afternoon, only about 35 customers were still without power, he said.
“We are trying to get everybody’s power back on,” Mr. Rancudo said.
Service to those last customers in the dark — in Catoosa and Walker counties — was expected to be restored before sundown, he said.
Georgia Power spokeswoman Konswello Monroe said as many as 250,000 customers were without power following the storm.
The number without electric service had dropped to about 39,000 Tuesday morning, she said, adding that about 33,000 of those outages were in the Atlanta area, particularly in Decatur and Buckhead.
The Georgia Electric Membership Corp. reported as many as 41,000 were in the dark at the height of the storms. That number declined to about 11,000 Monday, with about 4,000 still without power early Tuesday, according to company officials.
Crews were expected to have all outages restored by Tuesday evening, according to GEMC spokeswoman Terri Statham.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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