SYLACAUGA -- While Tropical Storm Zeta did not quite devastate Talladega County the way it did south Alabama or Louisiana, most of the county did sustain damage from the storm and will likely be trying to dig out for a while.
Thursday morning there were downed trees and power outages everywhere and no landline or cellular communications in large swaths of the county.
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