worsen in the hours ahead so it s going to take quite a bit of time for these roads to be cleared up. the good news is, aaron, that people have heeded the warnings and they ve stayed off of the roadways. that has made the situation a lot more manageable, especially for the emergency crews, the power line crews that we ve seen working throughout many neighborhoods here in the atlanta and northern georgia northern georgia area. like i say, it doesn t take much. a slope that we just drove up a moment ago, there was a handful of cars and the front two cars couldn t get up the hill. before you knew it there was just a back log of cars slipping back down the hill having to turn back around and go against traffic. that s when these situations get very dangerous very quickly and so, you know, even now that darkness has settled here across atlanta, this is even more important to heed the warnings to stay off the roadways because visibility is very low and that freezing rain continues to fall
back in towards the 80 s. very cool air. another cool day today. you get a thing called a wedge of cold air funneled in between the mountains in across parts of the northern georgia area and you can t get out of that you have had a lot of rain. some areas in the last 48 hours have seen over 4 inches of rain and flooding is a big concern. mostly to the south of the atlanta area but we re going to see more moisture pulling in there all weekend long. get ready for maybe another 3 to 5 inches and that s going to exacerbate this problem. part of some tropical moisture down across areas of the central gulf. most of the moisture is pulling in towards the southeast. if there is any kind of development of this tropical storm. it won t be anything too significant and maybe moving in towards the west around south texas. they could use some rain down there. we are not talking about the storm. the moisture, however is, going in towards the northeast. take a look at high temperatures. see that green