Severe Storms in the Southeast US Leave 1 Dead and Cause Widespread Power Outages

CANTON, Georgia: A weather system that brought strong thunderstorms far into the night in the Southeast resulted in one man’s death in Georgia, damage to a town in South Carolina, and a brief outage of electricity for hundreds of thousands of consumers. Severe Storms in the Southeast US Leave News in USA

According to the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office, the 27-year-old male was discovered dead when a tree fell on his driving automobile on a residential road in the suburban county northwest of Atlanta on Tuesday. There were no passengers within.

By Wednesday morning, there were only roughly 30,000 power outages in southern Georgia and southeast Tennessee, compared to over 200,000 in Georgia alone. The majority of Wednesday’s lingering outages were in and around the north Georgian highland town of Ellijay. Severe Storms in the Southeast US Leave News in USA

Straight-line winds in Orangeburg, South Carolina, damaged the downtown area of the city by tearing down wood from downtown business awnings and metal from rooftops. According to city officials, cleanup was underway.

Four firefighters in a Nashville, Tennessee, suburb were burned following a house fire started by lightning. One of the four stayed in the hospital to be monitored for smoke inhalation, while the other three were discharged from the hospital.

Authorities in northern Georgia and southeast Tennessee reported that fallen trees and power lines had obstructed roadways on Wednesday. On Tuesday, reports of fallen trees and wind damage came from North Carolina and Kentucky as well. Severe Storms in the Southeast US Leave News in USA

Zack Brackett, director of the Emergency Management Agency, reported that fresh reports of blocked roads in Hall County, northeast of Atlanta, kept coming in after daylight on Wednesday. Trees that fell in Gainesville caused damage to at least one residence.