Georgia Power Confirms 4,000 Without Power
A downed tree caused havoc with the power grid, causing a massive blackout in Canton.
EDIT (12:35 a.m.): According to Georgia Power's website, service will be restored in River Green before 2:30 a.m. Tuesday. UPDATE (12:30 a.m., Tuesday): Power has gone out in the River Green subdivision. The lights went out shortly after midnight Tuesday. Georgia Power has informed affected customers that service will be restored by 6:15 a.m. ORIGINAL STORY: Roughly 4,000 Georgia Power customers are without power after a downed tree disrupted the power grid in the Canton area on Monday evening. A spokesman with Georgia Power confirmed to Canton-Sixes Patch that the massive power outages in the Riverstone Parkway area were caused by the downing of a tree in the Waleska Road/Shoal Creek area. The spokesman also confirmed that 4,000 …
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Justin Ove
12:57 pm on Wednesday, February 27, 2013
I was responding to Facebook users who were asking me to find out why their power had gone out. I don't want to guess on the socioeconomic backgrounds of my readership on Facebook, but the areas I mentioned were due to specific questions or information from people on the page. I thought it would be a good idea to get something up quickly with the details as they were known or unknown at the time… more ›