 |
 Verified Customer
|
 |
“Outstanding service. They were extremely careful delivering the extra large container into our driveway.” -- A. L. GARNER
With Hurricane Irma bearing down on their home in West Palm Beach, Fla., Sara Rodriguez, her parents and her sister sought refuge with friends in Snellville — 600 miles to the north and a couple hundred miles away from the nearest ocean. But they would soon discover there was no escaping this storm. “We had no clue,” Rodriguez, 17, said Tuesday, a pink blanket wrapped around her shoulders. The previous night, two massive trees fell next door to the Village Court home of Tamara Felizola, the family friend who had taken in the Rodriguez family. The pines took down power lines and snapped a utility pole in half, knocking out power to the whole block and obstructing Felizola’s driveway with a spiderweb of live wires. The broken pole still sat in the road more than 14 hours later. “They said this is not a high-priority area,” Felizola, 45, said. “But the whole neighborhood doesn’t have electricity.”GEORGIA COAST: Tybee Island reopens after IrmaPHOTO GALLERY: See Irma’s devastation in Florida and GeorgiaThey were not alone. Significant portions of the metro area, from Snellville to Sandy Springs and Conyers to Cabbagetown, remaine... (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
