Atlanta under Tropical Storm warning. First time ever.

[Cattledog]

Atlanta has large tree canopy...bracing for power outages.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Yep. And giant branches from 100 foot oaks falling on my roof!

Best to all!!

[Hortensis]

2. Probably second, and weaker. AP may have mislead thousands of media into reporting this.

National Weather Service on 1995's Hurricane Opal:

"Opal rapidly weakened after moving inland and was downgraded to a tropical storm as it moved across southern Alabama. This system weakened further to a tropical depression as it moved into southeast Tennessee and became extratropical over the Ohio River Valley on October 5th."

I found this while confirming the report of the guy at thegate.boardingarea.com, who was in Atlanta for the Opal and says the AP was wrong.
http://thegate.boardingarea.com/tropical-storm-warning-for-atlanta-is-not-unprecedented/

Unlike the massive election-season lie about Hilllary and The Clinton Foundation the AP blanketed America with, this was likely just a sloppy mistake, or perhaps due to a difference in definitions between climatologist.

[Cattledog]

4. Thanks! You need to work as a fact checker for CBS, that's where I heard it.

[groundloop]

3. Well, not quite true. We were hit by Opal when it was still a minimal hurricane in 1995

We were without power for 3 days, and my next door neighbors roof had to be replaced.

Opal went through so fast that it didn't have time dump much rain.