Some southside metro neighborhoods had an on-again/off-again relationship with their power on Wednesday.
In a neighborhood about a mile south of Fayetteville off of Ga. 92, the power went off at 8 a.m. and then came back on at about noon and then went off again at 3 p.m.
That provided resident Anthony Ravenell a chance to do some of the things he said he doesn’t always find the time to do. “I got a chance to talk to my wife,” he said. “We had breakfast together,” and he later pitched in to fold some clothes.
“I’m trying to think of the little things to do to pass the time,” he said.
Ravenell, a New York native, said he was “as prepared as I’m going to be” for the loss of power. He said households without a generator — like his — know that when the power goes out, food will spoil at some point, but he didn’t have any big worries about that.
“The house is pretty much insulated and I still have some wood” for the fireplace.
Gerry Whitacre, who lives on the east side of Fayetteville off of Ga. 54, said when he lost power on Wednesday morning he got a lesson in preparation — or lack of it.
“I went out and fired up the grill and lo and behold, the gas bottle was empty,” he said. “I’m one of these unprepared people.”
He had no batteries, no bottled water or generator. “All my children have generators and here I am, the one who talks about it…”
Wednesday afternoon, power in his neighborhood was intermittent. He said, “We’ve got quite a few trees cracking around here.”
Part of Ga. 92 was blocked off for several hours Wednesday after one large tree fell across the road and took the power lines with it.
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