Down Trees and Power Outages in Stephens County

Multiple trees are down in Stephens, Franklin, and Hart counties.

Hart EMC is now reporting just over 700 power outages in their coverage area. Most of those are in Stephens County with 644 outages reported as of 8:00 a.m.

Georgia Power is reporting outages in Toccoa, Lavonia, and Hartwell.

WNEG’s sister station WLHR spoke to a local firefighter who is directing traffic in the Brittany Harbor East subdivision due to downed cable tv lines.

He advises all motorist on the road this morning to be very careful and watch for downed trees and power lines.

WNEG News will continue to follow this story and bring you updates as they become available.