Georgia Commissioner of Transportation Russell McMurry said DOT crews started spreading salt and gravel on Saturday night along 19,500 miles of highway that will need to be plowed. Highway workers from South Georgia have been be brought north to help, he said.
“This is an all-hands-on-deck response,” he said. “We’re here for the duration.”
Northeast Georgia is expected to have the heaviest impact from the winter storm that is moving across the northern half of the Peach State today and into tonight.
Col. Chris Wright, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Safety, urged Georgians to stay off the roads during the weekend to allow highway crews and other emergency personnel to do their jobs without disruptions.
“Our state is going to be impacted in some manner by this storm,” he said.
Gov. Brian Kemp urged Georgians to keep up with the latest reports on the storm’s progress.
“Hopefully, the storm will under-deliver,” he said. “But it could over-deliver. … We’re throwing all the resources we have available at this.”
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