Snow in Rome (3/2/10)
Reader snow photos (3/2/10)
Even though overnight temperatures were expected to be at or below freezing, Floyd County Emergency Management Agency Director Scotty Hancock was not expecting serious road icing this morning.
“City and county police will be out overnight checking roads while they are on patrol, but I don’t expect any major problems,” Hancock said. “There may be a spot or two that will freeze over, … but it will be scattered. People just need to watch out in the morning and use extra caution and watch out for any black ice.”
Both Rome and Floyd County schools were in session all day Tuesday, and school officials will monitor weather conditions overnight but expect to have classes as usual today.
Some districts in the northern parts of the state saw more snowfall and canceled classes or let out early, but from Floyd County to the Greater Atlanta area, there was little snow and no significant issues.
Lookout Mountain near the Tennessee line saw an estimated 7 inches, and other parts of North Georgia saw 3 to 5 inches, the National Weather Service reported.
Atlanta’s northern suburbs saw light accumulation, but a combination of above-freezing temperatures and very wet snow kept anything from sticking to the ground in the capital, National Weather Service meteorologist Laura Griffith said.
Delta Air Lines had canceled about 500 flights in and out of Atlanta because of the weather, said spokesman Anthony Black. AirTran officials told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution they canceled 58 flights. The Federal Aviation Administration said some flights in or out of Atlanta were delayed because of snow and ice.
The Walker County campus of Georgia Northwestern Technical College will open at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday because of snow. All other campuses (Floyd, Gordon, and Polk) will operate on a normal schedule.
DOT clearing roads
The Georgia Department of Transportation's latest list of area roads their crews are clearing:
I-75 in Gordon, Whitfield and Catoosa counties
SR 136 in Walker County
SR 100 in Polk County
SR 1, SR 48 and SR 100 in Chattooga County
SR 157 Walker County
SR 2 in Gilmer and Murray counties
SR 157 in Dade County
Forecast
The following is the complete forecast from the National Weather Service:
Today: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 46. North wind between 5 and 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Wednesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 31. Northwest wind around 5 mph.
Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 50. North wind between 5 and 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 29.
Friday: Sunny, with a high near 52.
Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 28.
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 63.
Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 29.
Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 69.
Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 36.
Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 66.
If you don't want your child to drive home in this, don't let them drive themselcves to and from school. Take them to school or put them on the bus and stop whining. Go get them yourself.
Be glad that you don't live in other states where they don't close schools unless a foot or two of the stuff accumulates on the ground. You would be a basket case during the winter.
Rome schools were open
the yutts you mentioned must have been home from school because their systems had cancelled classes and they were out joy riding I betcha.
Seriously, I hope that they do call it soon, cause a lot of the back roads that the buses travel are aleady covered, and it can get ugly fast.
But I believe that the winter weather warning was cancelled and downgraded to an advisory several hours ago..at least that's what the text said I got at 3am!