Georgia Power said Thursday morning that about 300 metro Atlanta customers remained without power, and that those homes and businesses would be restored by this afternoon.
Hundreds of thousands lost power due to Monday night's powerful storms.
Utility crews and city workers continued to whittle away at the damage caused by the heavy winds, connecting more and more people to the grid.
The Georgia Electric Membership Corporation said early Thursday that it had 1,900 remaining outages in north, middle and east Georgia.
Later Thursday morning, a tree fell on a power line on Palisades Drive off Peachtree Road, causing 60 customers to lose power. Georgia Power said power would be restored there this afternoon.
Residents of Little Five Points woke up Wednesday to find their power had been restored after roughly 30 hours in the dark.
Businesses took a hit from the loss of electricity, with one bar manager estimating losses of about $4,000.
"That kind of hurts," said Justin Wickline, bar manager of The Porter on Euclid Avenue. "We were told yesterday power would be on by noon [Tuesday], so we had our staff come in preparing for business as usual."
By 6 p.m. Tuesday, they gave up.
The Euclid Avenue Yacht Club tried to make the best of the pioneer conditions, using eight camping lanterns to light the venerable L5P dive bar. But they still had to scramble to minimize losses.
"We couldn't get the cash register open," said Yacht Club General Manager Meredith Carter. They saved most of their perishables, "borrowing freezers around the neighborhood," Carter said. Still, she estimates the bar lost about $2,000 from the power outage.
"If it happened on a Friday or Saturday night we would've been screwed," Carter said.
Crews from seven states pitched in to erect new utility poles and reconnect downed lines. Georgia Power spokeswoman Carol Boatright said 500 crews of two to four people from seven Southern states were dispatched Wednesday morning across the metro area.
"This storm was unique in that it caused significant damage across the entire state," said Terri Statham, spokeswoman for the Georgia Electric Membership Corp.
Only two of the 42 EMCs in Georgia reported no power outages.
Repair crews were still dealing Wednesday with high winds that snapped utility poles and knocked aging trees into power lines.
"EMCs are removing trees from roadways before they can enter damaged areas, repairing downed power lines and replacing a significant number of broken power poles, which is a time consuming effort," Statham said in a statement. "Broken poles are an extreme challenge due to the time needed for replacement as trees have to be cleared and old poles removed before new ones can be set."
There were no estimates of the number of fallen trees statewide but the City of Atlanta still had 80 open work orders Wednesday afternoon, down from 150 the day before. Eleven city work crews were removing debris Wednesday afternoon, Sharon Davis, spokeswoman for Atlanta’s Parks and Recreation Department, told the AJC.
--Staff writers Larry Hartstein and Ty Tagami contributed to this article.
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