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Catastrophic storm that s coming our way. georgia officials not taking any chances this time around after an ice storm crippled atlanta just two weeks ago. everybody apologizing. jonathan siri is live there with how the city is preparing. jonathan, you re getting hit? reporter: yeah, we are indeed. we ve been getting sleet for the past couple hours right now and as you look behind me, this is atlanta s downtown connector. it s where interstate 75 and 85 meet. and ordinarily you d be seeing the rush hour traffic just beginning at this time. very little traffic right now and traffic driving slowly. people heeding the warnings to stay off the roads. while most of the snow is concentrated north of atlanta right now, the temperature is right around freezing here. we ve been seeing sleet. there is already icing on some of the elevated roads and bridges. dot crews have been out pretreating these potential trouble spots to keep them open for emergency traffic. more than 2500 out of state uti ....
And added bolts to the site to try to stabilize it. while the community is happy that the road is open again, they are also proud. because of the quick thinking and expertise of a road supervisor and a geologist, no one is injured or killed by the rock slide. i get some cold sweats from time to time thinking of all the things that could have gone wrong that day. if i had stopped for coffee. taken extra time for lunch before i got out to the site. the timing of everything was such that once i got there we had time to see what was going on and get everybody out of the way before the slide occurred. had she not been there those rocks would have come down and not just bill and myself, but everybody that was working that scene, all the tdot crews. it would have been a much different story had we have been standing in that same spot. coming up, winds cause this ....
15 to 40 feet into the rock face and added bolts to the site to try to stabilize it. while the community is happy that the road is open again, they are also proud. because of the quick thinking and expertise of a road supervisor and a geologist, no one is injured or killed by the rock slide. i get some cold sweats from time to time thinking of all the things that could have gone wrong that day. if i had stopped for coffee. taken extra time for lunch before i got out to the site. the timing of everything was such that once i got there we had time to see what was going on and get everybody out of the way before the slide occurred. had she not been there those rocks would have come down and not just bill and myself, but everybody that was working that scene, all the tdot crews. it would have been a much different story had we have been standing in that same spot. ....
And added bolts to the site to try to stabilize it. while the community is happy that the road is open again, they are also proud. because of the quick thinking and expertise of a road supervisor and a geologist, no one is injured or killed by the rock slide. i get some cold sweats from time to time thinking of all the things that could have gone wrong that day. if i had stopped for coffee. taken extra time for lunch before i got out to the site. the timing of everything was such that once i got there we had time to see what was going on and get everybody out of the way before the slide occurred. had she not been there those rocks would have come down and not just bill and myself, but everybody that was working that scene, all the tdot crews. it would have been a much different story had we have been standing in that same spot. coming up, winds cause this ....
Rock bolts. 15 to 40 feet into the rock face and added bolts to the sirt to try to stabilize everything. while the community is happy that the road is open again, they are also proud. because of the quick thinking and expertise of a road supervisor and a geologist, no one is injured or killed by the rock slide. i get some cold sweats from time to time, thinking about all of the things that could have gone wrong that day. if i had stopped for coffee. take an little extra time to go have lunch before coming out to the site. the timing of everything was such that once i got there, we had time to see what was going on, get everybody out of the way before the slide actually occurred. had she not have been there, those rocks would have come down on not just bill and myself, but everybody that was working that scene, all the tdot crews, it would have been a much, much different story. had we had been standing in that same spot. ....