MOULTRIE, Ga. — A Wednesday evening storm brought high winds to the county, downing some trees and causing relatively short power outages, but no structures were reported damaged.

“We had two trees down on Lonnie Brookard Road, power outages on the north side of Moultrie in the county between Moultrie and Doerun,” Colquitt County Emergency Management Director Russell Moody said. “We had that system come in with some high winds.”

Power outages were brief as the storm moved through fairly quickly.

It has been a summer of story weather, but so far the county has been relatively lucky, Moody said.

“Even when we got three inches, the roads have been able to handle it,” he said.

During severe weather, Moody urged people to use common sense such as taking shelter when lightning is popping. Drivers also should be alert to possible flash flooding, especially at night when water over roadways is not visible.

With all of the storms, some county residents have installed generators. Moody said that generators should be installed with a shut-off switch to prevent power flowing out from homes into lines while repair personnel are working.

“The ones that have been installed have switches on them and (were) installed properly,” he said.

Road maintenance crews have been busy but have been able to keep up with water-related washouts to dirt roadways, Colquitt County Administrator Chas Cannon said. Two paved roads, Shade Murphy and Cannon, have also had washouts.

“Our motor graders have been operating non-stop,” he said. “You’ve got a lot of people calling with road-access issues. At Monday morning staff meetings we’re talking about the miles being put on motor graders.”

Other than weekends and nights when road crews have had to fix damage, the county has been keeping up with repairs during regular work hours, Cannon said.

“It was more of an issue back when we were getting rain every day,” Cannon said. “It’s good for our ag community, but tough on road maintenance.”