ATLANTA — Severe weather throughout the area has downed trees and taken out the power in metro Atlanta.
The National Weather Service issued several severe thunderstorm warnings throughout the evening.
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A Channel 2 photographer captured images of downed trees in Atlanta and DeKalb County.
As of 10:30 p.m., just over 40,000 Georgia Power customers in metro Atlanta were without power, as well as 17,000 Georgia EMC customers.
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Park of a tree struck a home at the 1500 block of Sugar Downs Ct. in DeKalb County.
A Channel 2 photographer also spotted tree damage was also seen at on a home at Richmond Street in Atlanta.
Traffic signals were out on Peachtree Street heading into Buckhead.
Elsewhere, a large tree came down in a Roswell neighborhood, and Channel 2 viewers reported downed trees in Braselton and College Park.
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