No Issues With City Of Savannah Water After Hurricane Irma

SAVANNAH, GA — Despite rumors that a boil water notice is in effect for Savannah residents, this is not and has never been true during Irma, county officials said. (SIGN UP: Get Patch's Daily Newsletter and Real Time News Alerts. Or, if you have an iPhone, download the free Patch app.)

City of Savannah water is safe to use and drink. Residents do not have to boil their water before using it to drink, bathe in, for laundry or any other reason. If you are not on City of Savannah water, please check with your provider for the latest information.

"I think there was some confusion with some announcements made by private utilities before the storm, that they were going to shut things down. And then people were like, is the water safe? And so, it just got a little confusing for folks when those messages came out," Saja Aures, Spokeswoman of City of Savannah, told WTOC.

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By Wednesday morning, the weather system that had once been Irma had fizzled as it moved through Kentucky and into Illinois. The National Hurricane Center was no longer tracking its progress — turning an eye, instead, to Hurricane Jose, which is spinning around in the Atlantic between the Bahamas and Bermuda as a Category 1 storm.

Tuesday afternoon, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal lifted the evacuation order that had remained for six coastal Georgia counties even as other south Georgians were allowed to return home. That order contributed to a a mass migration south on Georgia's roadways, after what officials have described at the largest evacuation in U.S. history from Florida and south Georgia.

On Tuesday, fuel outages were being reported at some gas stations, as heavy demand merged with difficulty the stations were having getting refueled during and after the storm. The outages were most prevalent in metro Atlanta and along the Peach State's interstates running toward Florida.

According to the website GasBuddy, most stations in the Atlanta area were fully refueled by Wednesday morning.

HOW YOU CAN HELP
Lots of charities and organizations are offering assistance in many forms to the victims of Irma. Find the one you'd most like to donate to and give what you can. Here are some highly-rated organizations helping with Irma. There are tons more on Charity Navigator.

• Team Rubicon
• American Red Cross
• All Hands
• Americares
• South Florida Wildlife Center
• Brigid's Crossing Foundation
• Global Giving
• Save the Children
• UNICEF USA

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