Wow, those storms last night were WILD! I can't recall the last time a line of thunderstorms w/ damaging winds turned out to be just that. I estimate that the winds were probably around 50-60mph during the peak, we had probably mothball sized hail, (sounded like trees snapping which is why I went onto my back porch to see if that was the case), on top of that abundant cloud to ground lightning and some impressive thunder, torrential heavy rains along with the hail made it nearly impossible to see very far in distance during the peak of the storm. I got a little nervous at the beginning because it looked like the sky had a greenish tint to it and I we had just lost power and I was thinking to myself, "Don't tell me there's really going to be a tornado coming." Luckily it was a false alarm along with the 3 times we lost power and it automatically came back on. The thunder/lightning and heavy rain went on well past the squalline exiting, I don't think it calmed down until probably around 2am this morning. Before I went to sleep the power outages reported statewide was 147,000, but I'm sure it probably doubled that because the storms were sitting along I-75 in Atlanta when that report came in and it looked like the storms were intensifying once they started approaching Athens and Macon.
