The Georgia Department of Transportation is taking the possibility of winter weather this weekend seriously and is already making plans for what they will do here in Northwest Georgia should winter weather hit our part of the state.

Joe Shulman is the communications director for the Georgia DOT for Region 6 – the Northwest Georgia Region.  Schulman says that the DOT is preparing now for the possibility of winter precipitation.

“The winter weather event this weekend is going to heavily impact Northwest Georgia. GDOT will be treating state routes in Northwest Georgia beginning Friday morning. We will be updating our social media channels with road and lane closures throughout the weekend. We expect this to be a significant and widespread weather event that will impact roads with ice and snow.”

WZQZ News will be in contact with the Georgia DOT and local authorities throughout the weekend should winter weather present travel problems.