I don’t know if I should thank you for all that information or not. I know I’m not being logical but I just can’t stand hearing about them coming close. We’re fairly new to GA having retired and moved from CA some years ago and truthfully, I would go back in a heartbeat - to earthquake country - to avoid thinking about hurricanes and tornadoes...My husband requires oxygen and some of his equipment requires power and the power can go off here if it’s just a cloudy day. He has the portable oxygen concentrator that he uses through the day and the home unit which needs power for sleeping. I guess it’s the stress of worrying about the oxygen that gets to me. We do have emergency tanks available and after last September without power for 5 days, it really doesn’t lessen the stress much.
There were a lot of trees where I lived in Dunwoody, and they came crashing down on power lines. The electrical crews had to work for about a month restoring power.
And the tree removal folks had more work they could handle for a while from trees falling because of the ice.
Wind and especially heavy rains might cause problems for Atlanta. Just make sure you have a 'Plan B' just in case -- which could be going to a local hospital with some things that might need power.
A senior home/rest home might be another option -- you might be able to find one close by, and set up a very short term deal... Some places have 'generator backup'.
Hospitals and other such places have the highest priority for keeping them up. Then come businesses and then homes.
That is what happened in 2000 - businesses such as telephone equipment run by the phone company was a high priority. So were the cell towers.