Power Restored to About 800 Sandy Springs Homes

The majority of about 800 Sandy Springs residents who lost power early Sunday morning had it restored by 7:30 this morning following last night's heavy thunderstorms, a Georgia Power official said Sunday.

Power was cut off to those residents at about midnight when the strorm felled a large tree in front of on Mt. Vernon Highway that snapped power lines and broke two poles, said Lynn Wallace, a Georgia Power spokeswoman.

The outages were localized to the Glenridge Drive area, she said, and the tree fell in an area near the intersection of Glenridge and Mt. Vernon Highway.

About 1,700 Georgia Power customers–including those in Sandy Springs–lost power across the Atlanta metro area earlier this morning, Wallace said, but those outages were mostly scattered.

"We didn't have nearly the amount of outages that we could have," she said.