Overview
- Utilities report more than 214,000 customers restored since the weekend storm, with about 10,000 outages still statewide.
- Roughly 8,000 remaining outages are concentrated in the northeast, including communities such as Clayton, Cornelia, Cleveland, White County and Habersham County.
- Outage totals fell sharply from about 80,000 on Sunday to roughly 17,500 by Monday afternoon on Georgia EMC’s tracker.
- A federal emergency declaration is in place and the Georgia National Guard is assisting with road clearing and logistics to speed repairs.
- Officials cite impassable roads, ice and downed trees as the main obstacles, and White County has opened shelters, including a special-needs site.