I live in central Georgia. We were lucky. The eye of the hurricane passed about 40 miles to our East as it made its way North through the middle of the state. We had no damage other than a few small limbs falling out of the neighbor's tree. We never lost power. Our neighbor two houses down and across the street from that house lost power when a small tree came down on the line going to his house. The four houses on that transformer were without power for less than 12 hours. The electric company came out at first light, got the tree off the lines, replaced the broken lines to the house, and put in a new transformer. With two trucks and 5 guys, they got the job done in about 45 minutes. Those guys are great at what they do! There were several other isolated outages similar to this around the area, but overall, it was minor compared to what it could have been.
Sadly, I have a friend who lives over in Waycross, GA on the Southeast side of the state about 125 miles away that took the brunt of the winds. The entire region there is without power and they have been told it may be two weeks or more before it can be restored due to the amount of extensive damage done to the major lines. There are thousands of outages in that area. There is only one fuel station open in the entire area. Lines are hours long to get fuel. They dedicated two pumps for people who are walking in with fuel cans. The line wraps around the block and down the street. Without electricity, the county water system shut down. The residents of that area have no electricity, no internet, and no water. I was not able to find out if this affected the sewer system as well. From what I heard, the local government was totally unprepared for the scale of events that happened due to the hurricane. Of course, most of the population were also unprepared...
