If it appears the grass along city rights-of-way and in the highway medians

needs cutting in Peachtree City, that's because it does.

Three hurricanes in a row have forced the city's Public Works department

to abandon its regular maintenance schedule, Mayor Steve Brown said Wednesday.

The record amounts of rain that have fallen on the area in recent weeks

have made it near impossible to cut grass anyway, Brown said.

But even on nice, sunny days city crews have been preoccupied with cutting

up and removing fallen trees, dead limbs and other rubbish from the frequent

storms.

Brown said the city would return to cutting the grass as soon as it could.

The workload for city crews has grown in recent years as the city has grown,

Brown said, but no new landscape personnel have been added to the city budget,

compounding the problem.

The Department of Leisure Services has its own landscape crews to maintain

the city's ballfields, he said.