Downed Trees Slash Through Power Lines in Georgia

<p>Georgia was bearing the brunt of the wicked weather hitting the South, with more than 200,000 customers in the dark.</p>

Emmanuel Jones, left, and her mother Kelly Jones walk back to their house after surveying their neighborhood during a winter storm that brought down trees and power lines leaving them without power on Wednesday in Doraville, Ga. John Amis / AP

Feb. 12, 2014, 6:27 PM UTC / Updated Feb. 12, 2014, 7:19 PM UTC

Kelly Jones and her daughter Emmanuel walk back to their house in front of downed trees that left them without power in Doraville, Ga., on Wednesday. Georgia was bearing the brunt of the wicked weather hitting the South, with more than 200,000 customers in the dark.

Image: Workers remove trees and snapped power poles brought down in the road in Doraville, Ga. — Workers remove trees and snapped power poles brought down in the road in Doraville, Ga.John Amis / AP