After nonstop news coverage of the ravaging effects of Hurricane Irma in Florida and the Caribbean, Georgia is set to experience the weakened yet still fierce impact of Tropical Storm Irma Monday and Tuesday.
» RELATED: Irma kills power to 1 million on Georgia coast and across Georgia
The storm, which was reduced from hurricane status Monday, has already knocked out power to more than 41 million Georgia Power and EMC customers in South and Middle Georgia. In metro Atlanta, heavy downpours were enveloping neighborhoods by early Monday morning.
“Through our early morning hours, heavy downpours will be starting, bands of rain will come through, strong winds will begin to pick up in the area, and we could have as much as 4 to 6 or more inches of rain across North Georgia,” Channel 2 Action News meteorologist Karen Minton said this morning.
With stalwart agencies such as MARTA suspending services, the potential gravity of Irma seems inevitable.
Those enduring the beginnings of the storm in metro Atlanta and parts of Georgia voiced skepticism, concerns and anxiety about one of the most powerful storms to hit the state.
Reports of storm damage came in Monday afternoon through Metro Atlanta.
#TropicalStormIrma has landed in Atlanta. pic.twitter.com/sNNKl6QOvz
— Hooded 4 Iron 🏌️♂️ (@4IronHooded) September 11, 2017
A tree damaged this house on Old Peachtree Road in Dacula. No one was injured. #StormWatchon2 pic.twitter.com/ZBn3sCVUgM
— Brian Ferguson (@BFergusonWSB) September 11, 2017
A taste of #TropicalStormIrma in NE Atlanta GA pic.twitter.com/mhmiDvLZt9
— Lori Kemper (@lori_kemper) September 11, 2017
Savannah and Hilton Head residents are bracing for the next days as flooding has encompassed their neighborhoods.
Here's what fully-flooded Singleton Beach Road looks like on Hilton Head Island #TropicalStormIrma pic.twitter.com/WXlQceeQUH
— Maggie Angst (@MaggieAngst) September 11, 2017
#TropicalStormIrma's winds driving water here at The Battery near White Point Garden #CHSnews #CHSwx pic.twitter.com/gl5PQTtR1E
— Gregory Yee (@GregoryYYee) September 11, 2017
In Houston County, Georgia, the tropical storm has brought in rapid winds.
Houston county Ga 60miles per hour wind, no power #hurricaneirma #hurricaneirma2017
— Blossom (@BlossomVinson) September 11, 2017
Elsewhere in Georgia, the 60 mph winds had blown over everything from roofs to gas pumps.
Watch out for storm surge in Coastal GA. Many main roadways under several feet of water. DO NOT get out on roads! #HurricaneIrma pic.twitter.com/DbeITbhHVp
— Casey Cagle (@CaseyCagle) September 11, 2017
Tropical Storm Irma now impacting Albany, Georgia. Only 61 degrees outside. Very odd that it's so cold. #HurricaneIrma pic.twitter.com/DxhmpuWKfz
— Terry Power (@TerryPowerFL) September 11, 2017
Wish I had a storm buddy
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— Layla Skyy (@_PinkStoner)
@weatherchannel please tell your newscaster that Southwest GA (Albany) has palm trees like FL. She said we didn't. #HurricaneIrma
— Jovi Brown (@ProfessorJovi) September 11, 2017
Some spectators in Atlanta were still not convinced of just how destructive Irma would be in Georgia.
Man. This is one elaborate liberal hoax.#HurricaneIrma
— LamontZeddmore (@TheGaMerOreo) September 11, 2017
Atlanta is full of weather wimps #Atlanta #HurricaneIrma #MARTA https://t.co/peNJ7OXKzh pic.twitter.com/7AG8A4QA9k
— Larry 'n Atlana (@LarrynAtlanta) September 11, 2017
@stormewarren Heading to work for now. Just rain in Atlanta so far. Expecting a half day #hurricaneimra
— McDoobAU93 (@McDoobAU93) September 11, 2017
8:15am EST we're already seeing heavy sustained wind gusts are packing a wallop. Rain getting heavier still have power. #HurricaneIrma #Ga
— Erin (@Erinontheradio) September 11, 2017
Earlier Monday in metro Atlanta, shutting down MARTA caused lots of frustration.
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