Chattooga County escaped the damage from Wednesday’s storms.  Since all of the neighboring counties in Georgia and Alabama received damage, residents from those neighboring counties are looking for goods and services in Chattooga County.

Commissioner Jason Winters told AM 1180 on Thursday morning that his office has been flooded with calls from people in Ringgold, Trenton and LaFayette looking for basic services such as groceries and gasoline. 

In Menlo and Cloudland there were long lines at gas station pumps as Alabama residents from DeKalb and Cherokee Counties waited to fill their tanks.  One Cherokee County resident told AM 1180 that they had driven from near Leesburg to find a gas station that had power in order to fill their tank.  Lucky’s Supermarkets in Lyerly and Menlo are doing a brisk business today as Alabama customers shop for basic goods not available in their home counties because of power outages.  People were also in Menlo searching for generators but there are none to be found.

TVA said that it could be up to 10 days before some areas of Alabama have power restored.