ATLANTA — Georgia emergency management officials and motorists appear to be heeding the example of “Snowmageddon” – the snowstorm that paralyzed the state in 2014 with hours-long traffic jams and multiple collisions.
The state Department of Transportation (DOT) started treating roads and highways with brine on Wednesday, two days before snow began to blanket the northern half of Georgia with accumulations up to several inches in some areas. Traffic was light, with schools and government offices closed.
“We have learned a lot of lessons,” Chris Stallings, director of the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA), told reporters Friday morning during a briefing at the State Operations Center in southeast Atlanta. “We stayed in front of it.”…