Just how hot has it been?
One Oglethorpe County farmer said, “It’s been as red-hot as the hinges on the door to Hades.”
Without irrigation, crops have been burning up in the fields.
And how dry?
A resident groaned, “If I had wanted to live in Arizona, I’d moved there.”
Those two comments pretty much sum up how it’s been lately in Oglethorpe County.
Monday afternoon and early evening, the county received relief with a thunderstorm. You could almost hear the crops and powder-dry red clay exhale, “Ahhhhhhhhh.”
We are grateful for every drop of God’s water.
But with the thunderstorm came gusts of strong winds, knocking down trees and power lines.
Within minutes of the trees dropping on roads and electricity outages, crews jumped into action. The emergency personnel of Oglethorpe County’s public works department, Rayle EMC and Georgia Power wasted no time getting the roads cleared and the power back on.
By bedtime, lights were shining across the county. And with air-conditioning units humming again, you could almost hear a community-wide sigh of relief.
Tuesday morning, the public works crews were back on the job, cleaning up the debris.
We say it one more time. We are grateful for the rain and the quick-acting crews that helped after the storm.