Hold on to your hats, metro Atlanta.
A wind advisory is in effect for the area through 8 p.m. Thursday, wind gusts could get up to 35 mph and windy weather will persist Friday and Saturday.
Those conditions could take down even more trees and power lines as parts of the metro area continue to recover from overnight storms that snapped tree limbs, sent trees toppling onto homes and left thousands without power.
Crews were already working to remove a tree that toppled across a DeKalb County driveway Thursday and trapped a resident in the 2500 block of Rock Chapel Road.
“With those weakened trees and the strong winds that we’re going to have this afternoon, more branches or trees could come down,” Channel 2 Action News meteorologist Karen Minton said.
Power had been restored to all but 900 of the 9,000 metro Atlanta residents who were left in the dark after overnight storms. And homeowners were clearing debris and other storm-related damage.
In Hall County, storms and strong winds uprooted large trees and knocked down power lines throughout the county. Winds even overturned a trailer on Old Federal Road.
A large tree branch snapped and ripped a hole through the master bedroom of one family’s apartment on Favor Road in Marietta, according to Channel 2.
In southwest Georgia, several people were injured when a suspected tornado overturned trailers and caused other damages, authorities said early Thursday.
And two people were seriously injured when a trailer home was destroyed in Dickey, in Calhoun County, a meteorologist said.
Wind speeds were 17 mph just before 2:20 p.m.
They will calm after Thursday night and fall between 10 and 15 mph by 10 p.m., Minton said.
Temperatures were 69 degrees in Atlanta, 59 degrees in Blairsville and 68 degrees just after 2:30 p.m.
But another cold front could hit metro Atlanta later this week, sending temperatures into the 30s by this weekend.
Highs will decrease a bit each day through the weekend. Friday’s expected high is 64 degrees, and Saturday’s is 48 degrees.
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