Everyone in Georgia is getting a taste of Superstorm Sandy’s strength, while most at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport is feeling the effect of the devastating storm.

The Weather

Metro Atlanta will be under another wind advisory until 8 p.m. Tuesday. The National Weather Service expects winds of 20-25 mph with gusts up to 45 mph; and the Service has issued a freeze warning, west of a Dawsonville to Fayetteville line for tonight.

There is also a high wind warning until 6 a.m. Wednesday for the northeast Georgia mountains. 20-30 mph winds with gusts up to 45 mph are expected. There is also a 20 percent chance of snow in extreme northeast Georgia.

The Airport

Delta Airlines is hoping some flights will resume on Tuesday. Delta has cancelled 2,500 from Sunday to Tuesday.

Southwest has nixed 900 through mid-way Wednesday and Airtran has grounded 275 flights in the same period. The storm has impacted operations at 16 airports serving both airlines in Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.

The delays have left thousands stranded, including three Georgia high school mock trial teams.

Students from Jonesboro High School, Grady High School and the Atlanta International School were due to return home from New York Sunday after competing in a world mock trial championship.

“It’s been kind of crazy,” Jonesboro’s Breanna McKnight told News/Talk WSB.  “But we have our whole mock trail family here, so it’s a lot more comforting than just being alone.

Emergency crews on the move

About 130 workers from 16 Georgia Electric Membership Corporation units have already been dispatched to Maryland and Virginia. Spokesperson Terry Statham told News/Talk WSB’s Jon Lewis that crews are usually dispatched after the storm, but they were called in early because of magnitude of the system.

Crews will help clear trees, replace broken poles, string new wire and repair individual service to those who lose power in the storm.

As of Monday, the Georgia Emergency Management Agency had not yet been called to assist in storm clean-up, but officials said they are preparing for such requests as the historic weather system rolls through.

Colleges extend application deadlines

Emory University announced an extension of one application deadline from Nov. 1 to Nov. 5. Students will still know by Dec. 15 if they are admitted to the school.

University of Georgia and Georgia Tech early action admissions application deadlines were Oct. 15 and thus are not impacted by Sandy. UGA did extend from Nov. 1 to Nov. 5 the deadline for the Foundation Fellowship applications.

A deadline at Agnes Scott College is Nov. 15, but officials said they “will be flexible when the date approaches.”

Local business change plans

A spokesman for Atlanta-based SunTrust Banks, which has a network stretching from Florida through the mid-Atlantic, said Monday it had closed about 275 branch offices in Virginia, Maryland and the Washington, D.C. area.

UPS has temporarily halted deliveries to locations in nine states and Washington, D.C., a spokeswoman said Monday.

As of Monday afternoon, 27 Home Depot stores were closed and more closures were expected. The company has 441 stores that were expected to experience tropical storm-force winds and 18 that were expected to experience hurricane-force winds, a spokeswoman said.