Metro Atlantans on Monday coped with downed trees and power lines, flooded roads, damaged homes and flash flood warnings after storms swept into the area Sunday night.
The risk of storms will continue much of the week, forecasters said.
In Gwinnett County, firefighters were called to a home in Norcross after a fallen tree severely damaged it, spokesman Lt. Colin S. Rhoden said.
No injuries were reported, but Liberty Taylor and Jay Harmon were left without a home, which was nearly cut in two.
“We cannot get in the house because it is too dangerous,” Taylor told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “If we open try to open the door, it might collapse. We cannot get our things out.”
Luckily, the couple was not home when the tree fell. The Red Cross is providing assistance.
Fulton County’s public safety radio system experienced intermittent issues Monday afternoon linked to a lightning strike that happened Sunday night, Fulton spokeswoman Jessica Corbitt said in an emailed statement.
“All public safety officers are working from backup channels and are able to communicate without interruption,” she said. “At no time was the public 911 system affected by the issues.”
In Cobb County, a tree came crashing down on a house on Jesica Way off Bells Ferry Road.
Homeowner Cathy Neher, who rents out the damaged home, said the large oak tree crashed through the master bedroom and another bedroom around 2 a.m. Monday.
Neher said her tenants “had a house full of guests. It was a Father’s Day celebration, and there were about 15 people in the house.”
“Fortunately, everybody is OK,” Neher said. “Very, very shook up.”
Neher noted that a 100-year-old oak fell in the backyard of her own home during last Thursday’s severe storms. “On the bright side, we’re going to have a ton of firewood.”
Also in Cobb, a bridge leading into and out of the Pine Haven mobile home park on Sandtown Road collapsed after more than an inch of rain fell during a 1-hour period Sunday night, stranding several hundred residents inside the trailer park.
Some of those residents were crossing the damaged bridge on foot Monday morning, but no cars could go across the bridge.
“This is a total safety hazard, especially with small children,” resident Megan McCoy told The AJC.
Alejandro Antonio Vasquez said the overnight collapse is the third time the bridge has washed out in the six years he has lived in the trailer park.
“All these people, they have to work,” he said of the stranded residents. “It’s no good.”
In southwest Atlanta, two westbound lanes of Ga. 166 at Metropolitan Parkway were blocked by deep standing water just before 7 a.m. Monday.
Also, in Cherokee County, some houses were struck by lightning, fire department spokesman Tim Cavender said.
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