Habersham EMC officials say a tree is responsible for a string of overnight power outages that affected more than a thousand of its members.
The outages first occurred late Sunday night in the Batesville and Sautee areas of northern Habersham and White counties. A few dozen other outages were reported early Monday in Rabun County.
In some cases, members went without electricity for several hours as crews worked to isolate the problem and restore service.
HEMC crews fully restored service before dawn Monday.
