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The rumors of an incoming storm were noted. Atlanta has a rich history of false alarm weather trouble. When the weather radar showed the storm going away from north Georgia, a lot of people went to sleep. They were in for a rude awakening.
That quiet was disturbed about 430 am. PG got up to put a trash cart on its side in the back yard. He then tried to sleep, but there was too much troubling noise outside. Finally, at about 5:00, there was a loud crash, and the lights went out. A large cable in the front yard was drooping down. The phone and internet line was hanging down much lower than before. Cars would go past the house, and then stop to turn around. The land line was out. Usually, a traditional phone line stays up in a power outage. This was not your normal weather event.
The pretense of sleeping was over, and PG got up. A large tree was down across the road, about four houses down. Thursday was spent walking in circles. You get out, and talk to neighbors. PG chopped up some fallen limbs, and put them in trash cans by the street. He walked around the block, to see the damage on the other side of the tree. A power pole was broken in half.
Friday was more of the same. Rumors started to fly that it would be Sunday night, or Monday morning. PG walked up to the gym, past a broken red light at the Redding Road underpass. Peachtree was in a nostalgic traffic backup.
Saturday was when things got interesting. About a dozens service trucks were on Parkridge Drive. PG talked to some ATT men, and was encouraged to try to fix the down cable line. He rigged up a temporary solution. Meanwhile, a large cable was resting on top of PG’s power line. It broke the guy wire, although the line itself stayed connected. The line was disconnected.
PG was told to find an electrician to hook it up. The first electrician said he couldn’t work on it. When the rest of the street got power at 7pm, PG was left in darkness. It was all very discouraging.
Sunday, a neighbor recommended another electrician. He came over, and did some magic to the line. Georgia Power was called. PG was apprehensive at first, until the service man asked PG to pull out the breaker. The lights came on at 6:21 pm, 85 hours after the power went out.
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress.