MACON, Ga. — As of Friday night, more than 800,000 people are without power in the state of Georgia.
That's a significant decrease from around 6:00 p.m. on Friday when it was around 900,000.
Most of those outages are in toward the southern part of Georgia, including Washington County where 7,000 people are without power.
In Bibb County, the remnants of Helene remain and more than 3,000 people are still without power.
On Peake Road in North Macon, one end of the road is still dark from dead stop lights, and on the other, Georgia power crews worked late into Friday evening to fix damaged power lines.
But where does Georgia Power start with thousands of cases across the Georgia area?
According to spokesman John Kraft, recovery starts with the damage assessment process.
"We start with the damage assessment process. It makes a big difference if our crews find out there are blown fuses or if there are broken poles just lying on the ground," Kraft said. "Each one of those cases, over 5,000 damage cases that we're already tracking, we have to access what the nature of those outages is or that damage is."
While Macon-Bibb EMS crews were out surveying damage reports in the area on Friday, there was one thing they couldn't handle on their own.
That's where Georgia Power crews step in to tend to power lines.
"We have assembled a recreation force of 10,000 strong. They're getting out there and working," Kraft said.
Strong winds and heavy rainfall left neighborhoods around Macon with downed lines, especially from blown-over trees.
Helene left debris on lawns along Azalea Drive in north Macon, where a tree was seen releasing smoke early this morning.
Another tree on Lower Thomaston Road brought down power lines with it.
Georgia Power took to social media today to say it's all hands on deck as they continue recovery efforts across the area.
On Peake Road, additional crews from companies including Coastal Utility were assisting with clean up.
"We're steadily making progress," Kraft said. "We're seeing the outages come down already, but certainly we still have significant outages and we're seeing them from one end of the state to the other."