High Winds Cause Trouble For GA Power, Fire, And Police Crews
By RNW Reporter Hayden Jennings
As heavy rains and storms cleared for a bright Mother’s Day, Mother Nature herself kept a small foothold on the day as high winds caused problems throughout the area.
Rome, which was under a wind advisory until midnight last night, was plagued by power outages caused by downed trees Sunday. Downed trees were reported at many locations including King Bee Circle, Silver Street, Huffaker Road, and W. Troutman Rd. In many cases, these trees took power lines down with them, causing at the least flickering of lights in homes around the county and outages in other places. Even with the excess rain Rome has had, two cases of downed power lines even sparked small grass fires.
The outages left emergency agencies spread thin, the police responded to burglar alarms tripped by winds or outages and the fire dept. responding to downed lines in addition to fire alarms. The outages spread GA Power Crews thin also, causing delayed responses due to their call volumes.
The biggest problem of all was the downed tree on W. Troutman Rd. which took a large power transmission line down with it. After Rome Fire Engine 9 located it after having trouble doing so, they discovered that they could not reach the scene where a grass fire had been sparked. Georgia Forestry was called to contain that fire though it spreading only at a small rate.
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