Crews from Georgia Power and Georgia EMCs were working to restore service to customers across North Georgia and the Atlanta metro area after a winter storm dropped snow and ice on Friday and into Saturday.

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Winter Storm Warning now in effect for almost all of north Georgia. The First Alert Weather team said the threat of ice from the winter s

Outages increased during the evening on Friday but have lowered some on Saturday morning. ATLANTA — Saturday morning, there are still over 70,000 people without power across the state after fluffy snow transitioned to rain and then to icy conditionals that could lead to iced-over trees that could fall and take down power lines,