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No Isaac, but storms may douse holiday
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There’s still a chance thunderstorms could drench your Labor Day cookout, but a heavy dose of rain still remains a long shot for most areas in North Georgia.There were hopes last week that Hurricane Isaac, since downgraded to a tropical storm, might bring relief to drought-stricken parts of Georgia as it traveled up the Gulf of Mexico.But the storm hit farther west in Louisiana and now is dumping its tropical rains on the Midwest in the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys, in addition to spawning tornadoes and leading to flooding in some areas. Though most Georgians may be relieved not to face such a soggy holiday, any rain would have been welcome to many across the state, especially farmers.“We thought that it would park over Georgia, and we would get a few days of rain, which could have wiped out the drought,” Pam Knox, an agricultural climatologist with University of Georgia Cooperative Extension, said in a news release. “Instead, it moved farther to the west than we thought.