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The high winds due to the storm Thursday night fortunately did not create any high degree of serious damage; however a good part of the City is covered in leaf and debris.   Please, when placing such debris next to the curb for pickup, ensure that leaves and limbs are in separate piles.   Doing so will expedite the Street Department’s endeavors in getting the City back to pre-storm condition. We ask for your patience, as we did three years ago after a heavy snowfall created a tremendous amount of debris for our Street Department to pick up, for there is a very good chance we will be running behind schedule in gathering chipping and hauling away all the limbs and other material left from last night’s storm.

Watkinsville was nailed from two different directions with spontaneous summer storms. Some said inline winds, others said tornado, some thought wind shear. The damage to the trees was on both sides of the street in this gullywasher. My neighbor Tom Gwinn said it came in two bursts from different directions right at five o clock Thursday. I came upon a fire department truck working on a house struck by lightning at 1041 Taylor's Drive in Taylors Landing in the subdivision next to mine. Many limbs were down, trampolines blown away and basketball goals knocked over by the wind. Here are some photos.