It was fierce - my normal drive to work is 20 minutes on a trafficky day - on Tuesday I left home at 8 am and got to work at 9:15. There were so many trees down, blocking roads, lights still out - we didn't have power at the office on Monday (the day the winds actually came through) from 10 - 4:30 and some people still didn't have power on Tuesday night.
The drought has been so hard on the trees that their root systems are weak and a blast of wind like those we had on Monday can tear a poorly rooted tree (some huge ones) right out of the ground.
Linda T in Atlanta