{"id":219764,"date":"2025-04-02T17:08:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T21:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=219764"},"modified":"2025-04-02T17:08:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T21:08:33","slug":"photos-storms-rip-through-carroll-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=219764","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Storms Rip Through Carroll County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Several roads across Carroll County were closed Monday following severe storms that swept through the area March 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83c\udf33 <strong>What We Know:<\/strong> Trees fell on multiple homes on Cypress Circle and damaged several mobile homes on Memory Springs Drive. The storm knocked down trees on Highway 5 at multiple intersections including Reavesville Road, Old Columbus Road, Daniel Road, Ephesus Church Road, and Little New York Road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emergency crews reported additional downed trees on Old Driver Road, Whooping Creek Road, Carrollton Tyus Road, Bethesda Church Road, and Ringer Road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The communities of Tyus, Roopville, Lowell, and Whitesburg also experienced significant storm damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Photos:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\"><div class=\"\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:25.00000%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"2048\" data-id=\"219766\" data-link=\"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?attachment_id=219766\" 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full-screen\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd22 <strong>By The Numbers:<\/strong> Trees damaged homes in at least 2 residential areas and blocked at least 10 roads throughout the county.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udea8 <strong>In Context:<\/strong> Spring storms frequently cause tree damage across Georgia as saturated ground and high winds create hazardous conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u26a1 <strong>What&#8217;s Next:<\/strong> Emergency crews, Carroll County Public Works, and utility workers will continue clearing debris and restoring power. Bowdon Police Department officers are assisting deputies with traffic control in affected areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2764\ufe0f <strong>Remember The Golden Rule:<\/strong> If your area was spared damage, consider offering shelter, meals, or assistance to those whose homes were affected by the storm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=5]\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several roads across Carroll County were closed Monday following severe storms that swept through the area March 31. \ud83c\udf33 What We Know: Trees fell on multiple homes on Cypress Circle and damaged several mobile homes on Memory Springs Drive. The storm knocked down trees on Highway 5 at multiple intersections including Reavesville Road, Old Columbus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":219767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6067],"tags":[12611,9640],"class_list":["post-219764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather","tag-storm","tag-storms","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}