A tractor-trailer carrying part of a house caused some power outages after it hooked lines on Hwy. 11 at about 11:30 a.m. Friday causing major traffic delays.
The lights at the intersection of Broad and May streets were out for at least an hour, authorities said.
Both Winder Fire Department and Winder Police Department assisted at the scene along with Georgia Power and Windstream.
According to an engineer with Georgia Power, about 20 businesses had partial interruption of power for about 30 minutes. Two customers had a lot of damage and those customers were out for several hours.
The driver of the tractor-trailer was not ticketed for the interruption.


We don't need more of those in Barrow, we need higher $$$($250,000 +) homes to bring in more tax $$$.
You might be able to put 3 or 4 trailers on the same size lot as one home but the home would bring in tax $$$$ with fewer strains on public resources (school, fire, EMT, streets, sheriff etc )
We Do Not need to expand these type homes in our particular community. We already have our share of lower end housing and you cannot support the expanding infrastructure of our growth, our population with these lower end housing options. We as a county have way, way too many smaller homes; we are very bottom heavy, and with a lack of larger homes which would balance our need for more and higher taxes. We cannot allow this to become a less desirable destination (than we have already become), stuck with only starter homes, and the highest taxes in the metro area because we weren't smart enough to attract a balance of home sizes and prices (again lack of higher end) which bring in more property tax revenue along with more consumer spending here in our county, resulting in increased property values even among the smaller cheaper homes and more industry and supporting new businesses. Larger more expensive homes are typically owned by persons with higher incomes attracting a different and absent portion of our citizenry missing from the mix. They typically have more disposable income to inject into our economy, so others will have to pay less to sustain it. Those residents often will help us with their pocketbooks or influence to gain certain additions to our community that they would desire and would benefit us all. We don’t need more modular (or mobile) homes, and we don’t need but a Small percentage of starter homes being built right now. We have over 2000 starter homes sitting empty for purchase or rental now in Barrow County. We need to clean up and be a more attractive community overall. We need more parks/parklands (not just baseball fields) and other options for both our current citizens and to attract new ones, this would be something we cannot afford if we stick to only lower end housing options. At the moment we can even afford to pay our current operating budget, can’t even keep fire stations manned.