We got through by the grace of God."

That's Fairburn's City Administrator Jim Williams assessment about

facing the last blows of Hurricane Frances Tuesday night. With one hour being

the longest power outage, Fairburn kept things going thanks to the foresight

and quick response of the city's electrical crew, the public works department

and the police.

"All the emergency departments work together in a situation like this." Williams

said. "They were on the job at 9 p.m."

A large tree on Bohannon Road had to be cut up to clear the street and several

power lines were snapped by more falling trees.

Williams said the damage in town by water and debris was significant, but

far less than other areas. He mentioned that one city employee who lives

in Brooks still doesn't have power.

An inventory of materials and putting crews on call are the two main precautions

that are taken to help weather the storm. "I look to see how fast our

people can get out there." Williams said. He related that when he arrived

at City Hall Wednesday morning at 5 a.m. that everyone was out doing their

best to keep Francis from making too large of a mess. "

We must be doing something right." Williams added making it clear that

he was proud of the job city employees were doing.