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Acme Pizza Co. and Stoop Cafe offer delicious local food options in Calgarys Renfrew neighbourhood

Acme Pizza Co. and Stoop Cafe offer delicious local food options in Calgarys Renfrew neighbourhood

Acme Pizza Co. and Stoop Cafe offer delicious local food options in Calgarys Renfrew neighbourhood

Acme Pizza Co. and Stoop Cafe offer delicious local food options in Calgarys Renfrew neighbourhood

>> reporter: yeah, so obviously the message at this point is for people to stay inside their homes. stay off the streets. but, look, there are shelters. there are five of them set up in this area for people to go to if they dont have a stable structure to be in. mobile homes comes to mind. or something like that. they dont want people staying in that because the winds, obviously, that could be really dangerous, really damaging. so there are a couple hundred people that have gone to shelters. but...

This is a tornado watch. we even had a tornado warning inside the perimeter of atlanta, downtown atlanta. so tornadoes are going to be possible. we havent seen as many as we typically do, but thats a good deal. but because we still have the core, even though weve lost the eye, the core winds around this are still sustained at 90 miles per hour. so as that moves to the north, we can expect wind gusts maybe up to 110. again, its going to continue to lose strength, but even though its a category 1,...

They wont be for probably the next little bit until those winds calm down. obviously, they are getting calls in this time. theyre going to respond to them, but not until they say that it is safe to do so. also, there are power outages. widespread. more than 7,000 customers in this county, alone, without power. you can bet theres a whole heck of a lot more than that across the state of georgia. and elsewhere as well. the good news is that there are out of state power utility companies and service...

Your family are doing okay. im sorry about your brothers house and your neighbors. i wish you, you know, to continue to stay safe and lets hope it gets cleaned up quickly. thanks so much for speaking with us. >> okay. youre welcome. >> patricia mulligan. as we said, the storm is now hitting southern georgia hard. i want to go to cnns scott mclean in albany, georgia, 100 miles north of tallahassee. so, scott, describe conditions where you are. >> reporter: hey, anderson. so were really starting t...

>> at this point, how do people reach out to you? you talked about your facebook page. are you getting calls? obviously land lines for a lot of people are out. im not sure, are cell towers still up? >> so, were getting calls from people that have evacuated that have friends that stayed and theyre giving addresses. our facebook is up. its united cajun navy is the facebook page you want to go to. submit the request. we have a dispatch team of about 20 people that are logging in dispatches. when i ...

Deal. but because we still have the core, even though weve lost the eye, the core winds around this are still sustained at 90 miles per hour. so as that moves to the north, we can expect wind gusts maybe up to 110. again, its going to continue to lose strength, but even though its a category 1, that circulation, anderson, has to be coupled with its forward movement. so, again, power outages and downed trees are going to be the big factor. this was a storm that was predicted to drop up to 10 and ...