{"id":220206,"date":"2025-04-11T13:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T17:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=220206"},"modified":"2025-04-11T13:00:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T17:00:49","slug":"fallen-oak-tree-closes-zebulon-road-in-macon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=220206","title":{"rendered":"Fallen Oak Tree Closes Zebulon Road in Macon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A large oak tree has fallen across Zebulon Road, forcing officials to close the section between Madison Subdivision and Powers Plantation. Bibb County Sheriff&#8217;s Office deputies now direct drivers to find alternate routes while crews work to remove the tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udeab <strong>What We Don&#8217;t Know:<\/strong> Officials haven&#8217;t provided an estimated time for when the road will reopen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\ude97 <strong>Why It Matters:<\/strong> This closure affects a key connector road in the area. Commuters who regularly use this route will face delays and need to plan extra travel time until crews complete the removal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u23f1\ufe0f <strong>What&#8217;s Next:<\/strong> Work crews are actively removing the tree. The Sheriff&#8217;s Office promises to notify the public once the road reopens to traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd04 <strong>Take Action:<\/strong> If this is part of your regular route, plan an alternate path until officials announce the road has reopened. Check local traffic apps or the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"\/county\/Bibb\"   title=\"Bibb\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"1397\">Bibb<\/a> County Sheriff&#8217;s Office social media pages for updates before traveling in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=2]\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large oak tree has fallen across Zebulon Road, forcing officials to close the section between Madison Subdivision and Powers Plantation. Bibb County Sheriff&#8217;s Office deputies now direct drivers to find alternate routes while crews work to remove the tree. \ud83d\udeab What We Don&#8217;t Know: Officials haven&#8217;t provided an estimated time for when the road [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":220207,"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":[65],"tags":[16836,16644,12270],"class_list":["post-220206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-traffic","tag-current","tag-fallen-tree","tag-zebulon-road","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220206","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=220206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}