Rabun County schools were delayed two hours Monday morning due to downed trees and broken power poles on the roadways. Rabun County Schools Director of Operations and Facilities Jason Hogan explained that there were multiple trees down across roads throughout the county this morning due to the wind late yesterday and overnight.
Hardest hit areas
The worst location, according to Hogan, was just north of Clayton on US 441 in the “George Eller Curve” near the hospital, where trees fell onto power lines causing 5 or 6 power poles to break, blocking both north and southbound lanes of the major thoroughfare.
Mountain Lakes Medical Center Facilities Manager Brian Turner stated that the hospital never lost power.
Another area heavily impacted was the Low Gap/Lakemont area of Rabun County, where trees and power lines were down on the roadways.
As of 2:30 p.m. Monday, Georgia Power was reporting 7 outages in Rabun County, affecting 243 customers. The main areas affected were in the Lakemont and Wiley areas of Rabun County, with smaller outages affecting customers in the Mountain City area.
Storm system
The storm system that passed through northeast Georgia over the weekend brought rain and wind and spawned tornado watches in the north and central parts of the state. Temperatures dipped to below-freezing overnight Sunday after a weekend of heavy rain.
The same storm system affected western Tennessee with severe weather, where at least six people died when tornadoes touched down east of Nashville and in Clarksville, Tennessee.
