Thursday afternoon’s fast-moving thunderstorm caused trees and power poles to fall in the county, but most of the damage was centered in Tunnel Hill, said Director Jeffrey Putnam of Whitfield County Emergency Services.
“We had a lot of rain and a lot of wind in a very short period of time,” he said. “There were power lines down in the Tunnel Hill area because some of the power poles had broken, and a tree came down on a home between Northwest High School and I-75.”
Putnam said the residents at 2017 Tunnel Hill-Varnell Road fled to the basement and no one was hurt.
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