Johns Creek Dodges Storm Bullet

Johns Creek managed to avoid the brunt of last night's storms that brought significant damage and power outages to surrounding areas.

"No big news here," said Rosemary Taylor, the city's communications manager. "The only issue that we had related to the storm last night was one traffic signal that went into flash."

Meanwhile, multiple trees were reported down in neighboring Alpharetta and Milton with scattered power outages, while the city of Atlanta saw widespread downed trees and power outages. To the east, reported dozens of house fires and downed trees and power lines.

Five weather-related deaths were reported in Georgia, including one in Atlanta resulting from a tree falling on a car on West Marietta Street.

At one point last night, Georgia Power reported some 180,000 customers without power, including 90,000 in the metro area. By lunchtime that number had fallen to around 50,000 in the Atlanta region.

Today will remain clear with highs reaching the mid-50s, but a wind advisory is in effect in North Fulton until 8 p.m.