The morning rush hour was building shortly after 8 a.m. Friday as more drivers started returning to their normal routines.
The Georgia Department of Transportation says they have had very few calls of icing in the metro Atlanta area since sunrise.
“We think we’re ahead of this now,” said GDOT spokeswoman Karlene Barron. “This is pretty much behind us.”
All the road maintenance crews brought in from other parts of the state – up to 75 crews at the height of the storm on Wednesday – have been sent back to their home districts. GDOT is now employing just a “skeleton crew” of workers to hit problem spots in metro Atlanta.
“It’s basically just folks now back to their routine duties,” Barron said. “If there is something that pops up, the skeleton crew goes out. We’re just responding as needed now.”
State transportation officials were still working with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to clear roads and state routes in the eastern part of the state near Augusta that are strewn with fallen trees and branches and blanketed with ice.
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