Georgia Power prepares for severe spring weather

ATLANTA - Tuesday evening, severe thunderstorms and strong winds resulted in power outages for over 5,000 Georgia Power costumers. By Wednesday morning, those outages where almost entirely fixed.

According to Aaron Strickland, the emergency operations director, this event was small compared to some he has seen. Strickland manages Georgia Power's storm center, a high tech weather forecasting center and logistics center located in Atlanta. The storm center is built to track storms ranging from snow and ice to hurricanes moving from the Atlantic.

Strickland said the ice storm of 2014 was one of the biggest he has seen.

"Just on a normal day we have thousands of people working, but back in 2014 when we had the major ice storm we had an additional 5,000 people working here in Georgia. So at that time we are not only moving our people, but an extra 5,000 people," said Strickland.

The ice storm of 2014 may have been the worst, but according to Strickland, spring is often the worst season.