Georgia utility crews assist in North Carolina

ATLANTA - Utility crews on standby in north Georgia have headed to North Carolina after an ice storm predicted for Georgia failed to materialize. <br> <br> Residents of north Georgia had seen more rain than ice by daybreak. <br> <br> Meanwhile, one million customers are reported to be without power in North Carolina. Georgia Power is sending its crews in to help. <br> <br> Pockets of heavy rain moved across north Georgia, but temperatures stayed above freezing. <br> <br> Tree limbs felled power lines in some areas, knocking out electricity in thousands of homes, most in metro Atlanta and counties near the South Carolina border. <br> <br> In the Atlanta area, some 5,700 Georgia Power customers lost electricity. <br> <br> But crews had restored power to almost all the customers by 4:30 a.m. <br> <br> A spokesman for Hart Electric Membership Cooperation -- which provides power to several counties near the South Carolina border -- says tree limbs knocked out lines to about 2,300 customers in Hart and Elbert counties. Fewer than 100 remained without power by dawn Thursday. <br> <br> Two dozen flights from around the country into Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport were delayed due to wintery weather, though no problems were reported at the Atlanta airfield.

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