ATLANTA — Heavy rain and strong winds from Isaias are impacting metro Atlanta Saturday morning, prompting flash flood warnings and reports of fallen trees across the area.
The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood warning for Clayton, DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry and Rockdale counties until 1:15 p.m. Saturday.
Parts of Spalding and Pike counties have already received more than four inches of rain, raising concerns about flooded roads, low-lying areas and rapidly rising rivers and streams.
Strong wind gusts have also brought down trees in parts of metro Atlanta.
In southwest Atlanta, a large tree fell across Cascade Road near Sandtown Road, blocking traffic. MARTA buses were forced to turn around, and an SUV driver struck the fallen tree.
An Atlanta police officer reported multiple trees down throughout the city.
In Tucker, a tree fell onto a home along Samaria Court in DeKalb County. No injuries have been reported at this time.
More than 95,000 customers across Georgia are without power as Isaias brings heavy rain and strong winds to the state, according to PowerOutage.us. More than 52,000 of those outages involve Georgia Power customers.
Residents can check the latest outages and estimated restoration times on Georgia Power’s outage map.
Isaias made landfall near Destin, Florida, Friday night as a Category 2 hurricane.
According to the National Hurricane Center’s 5 a.m. advisory, Isaias has since weakened into a post-tropical cyclone, moving north at 14 mph with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph.
In addition to flooding, the storm continues to bring concerns about damaging wind gusts and the possibility of brief tornadoes.