With many areas receiving record rainfall Tuesday as tropical storm system Fred moved through, White County, Cleveland, and Helen officials spent the day dealing with storm-related issues.
White County Public Safety Director David Murphy advised in an email that they had several calls for trees down, power outages, and flooding. Fire, Law Enforcement, Public Works, Animal Control, and EMA units all jumped in to answer calls to assist in road clearing, damage assessments, and flooding issues.
Even though some of the flooded areas are seeing relief a flood watch continues through Wednesday morning for the area.
Murphy said, no area of White County was spared from the effects of the storm.
“Our teams worked together to manage the incident and respond to the service needs of our constituents, ” he said. “They worked together like a well-oiled machine from the 911 Center operators to the responders in the field.”
Murphy added, “I’m grateful for the dedication of all our personnel and volunteers.”
Even though White County was never placed under a Tornado Warning, the Emergency Operations Center requested Mt. Yonah Elementary School to go under emergency operations due to the warning that was issued in Banks and Habersham County. The storm had changed to a northwest movement on radar and the operations center felt it necessary to proactively move kids to safety for a period of time.
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Several hundred Habersham EMC members and over 1,200 Georgia Power customers were still without electricity Tuesday evening. Most of those outages were in and around the Helen area where flooding was severe.
Below is a summary of incidents from the 911 Center records.
Locations with confirmed trees down:
Virgil Hunt / Tesnatee Gap Valley Rd
Asbury Mill Rd / Hwy 129 N
6363 Hwy 75 Alt
Town Creek / Dozer Rd
Robinson Rd / Paradise Valley Rd
3085 Hwy 255 N
1699 Richard Russell Scenic Hwy
Hwy 356 / Skylake
1778 Joe Black Rd
Hwy 75 Alt / Scorpion Hollow
747 Duncan Bridge Rd
Hwy 356 / N Main Street
Helen Hwy / Windy Acres
Multiple trees down on Hwy 356
Power Lines down:
3066 New Bridge Rd
182 Post Rd (with tree)
Kellum Valley / Post Rd (with tree)
235 Yonah Valley Rd
Flooding:
896 Campbell Street
Thomas Rd / Hwy 115 W
286 S Main Street (area of Glenda’s)
Quillian Street
Cooley Woods / Mountain Meadows
Ricky West Rd / Mossy Acres
Mauldin Rd / Asbestos Rd
Bean Creek at Gold Valley Rd
327 Asbestos Rd
Riverside Park – Helen
Edelweiss Strasse at Brucken Strasse (bridge and roadway)
500 block of Chastain Rd
Vehicle Accidents:
MVA w/ Entrapment 5852 Hwy 254
Road Closures:
Bridge on Edelweiss Strasse
Hwy 356 at Hwy 75 due to Tree taking extended clearance time.
Chattahoochee River overflowed the riverbank beside Troll Tavern at 1157 hrs.
