From Staff Reports
Dalton Daily Citizen
June 11, 2009 10:54 pm
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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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Photos
E.P. Davis, right, looks over the remains of an ash tree with his neighbor James Bryson after the 30-year-old tree was struck by lightning Thursday afternoon off Scobie Avenue in Dalton. Davis, who moved to Dalton in 1953, says he planted the tree in 1980. Matt Hamilton