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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — President Donald Trump has approved an emergency declaration that allows federal disaster assistance to be made available to Georgia following Hurricane Isaias.

The declaration authorizes FEMA to “coordinate all federal disaster relief efforts to alleviate the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population and to provide appropriate assistance to save lives, to protect property, public health and safety and to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe,” according to the White House.

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The assistance will be made available to the following counties:

• Baker
• Banks
• Barrow
• Bartow
• Calhoun
• Carroll
• Catoosa
• Chattahoochee
• Chattooga
• Cherokee
• Clarke
• Clay
• Clayton
• Cobb
• Colquitt
• Coweta
• Dade
• Dawson
• Decatur
• DeKalb
• Dougherty
• Douglas
• Early
• Fannin
• Fayette
• Floyd
• Forsyth
• Fulton
• Gilmer
• Gordon
• Grady
• Gwinnett
• Hall
• Haralson
• Harris
• Heard
• Henry
• Jackson
• Lee
• Lumpkin
• Macon
• Madison
• Marion
• Meriwether
• Miller
• Mitchell
• Murray
• Muscogee
• Newton
• Oconee
• Paulding
• Pickens
• Pike
• Polk
• Quitman
• Randolph
• Rockdale
• Schley
• Seminole
• Spalding
• Stewart
• Sumter
• Talbot
• Taylor
• Terrell
• Thomas
• Towns
• Troup
• Union
• Upson
• Walker
• Walton
• Webster
• White
• Whitfield
• Worth

Isaias made landfall Friday evening in Florida as a Category 2 hurricane, and it brought major impacts to north Georgia on Saturday.

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Currently, Isaias is a post-tropical cyclone. A high wind warning and flood watch are in effect for most of north Georgia through Sunday morning, and rainfall totals of 1 to 4 inches are expected across the region.

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