Georgia’s electric membership cooperatives were also facing outages.

Georgia EMC, which represents the cooperatives that primarily serve rural parts of the state, showed its members had more than 7,000 customers without power early Saturday morning, according to its outage map. But that was down considerably from more than 30,000 customers without power at 8 p.m. Fridayoutage map showed.

Most of those EMC customers without power were also in counties around metro Atlanta.

As crews try to get the lights back on for customers, Georgia Power also stressed several safety tips:

— Editor’s note: This is a developing story and will be updated.