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Widespread severe storms & tornadoes up & down the East Coast, Georgia to New York on Memorial Day
This has been a very busy Memorial Day holiday weekend from the standpoint of severe weather and shifts to the Eastern Seaboard. There is severe weather risk up and down the East Coast from Georgia and Alabama, northward through South & up North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware New Jersey and all of New York State including New York City and Long Island. In fact all the major metro areas including Atlanta, Charlotte, Richmond, Washington DC, Baltimore, and Phildelphia lie in the risk zone.
Voters deliver upsets in Georgia House races with other contests headed to a June runoff
Georgia voters kicked out incumbents, picked replacements for departing legislators and set the stage for June runoffs as well as the big show in November. Ballot casters up and down the Peach State made choices Tuesday that are already set to reshape the state Legislature, which could have an even greater effect on the average Georgian than who sits in the White House this time next year.
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