Q: I noticed during the snow jam that AM 750 and 95.5FM News/Talk WSB announcer Scott Slade was on the air early Wednesday morning. Does WSB have facilities for an overnight stay for radio and TV announcers who need to be back on the air early or can't make it home? —Bob Markert, Roswell
A: Slade, the host of AM 750 and 95.5FM News/Talk WSB's "Atlanta Morning News with Scott Slade," and other station personnel have the ability to broadcast from home studios, which is what Slade did on the morning of Jan. 29. "Too many roads were blocked with snarled traffic for me to attempt the ride back to Midtown Atlanta at 3 a.m.," he told Q&A on the News in an email. Slade wrote that the station's reporters and anchors have been "known to get hotel rooms and even sleep on floors and couches in the building, which is what some of my colleagues were forced to do Tuesday and Wednesday nights."
Q: Having just survived Winter Storm Leon and seeing all the tractor-trailer trucks stuck inside I-285, I'm wondering whether any of the truckers will be fined? I thought they could only go through the city if they were on business there? — Kathy Evers, Roswell
A: Trucks with more than six wheels are allowed inside I-285, or the Perimeter, for a variety of reasons, according to the Georgia Department of Public Safety. They can pick up or make deliveries "to or from a shipper physically located inside I-285," travel to or from a carrier's terminal located inside I-285 and go to or from a repair facility inside I-285. Drivers who live inside the Perimeter also can travel to or from their residences. Otherwise, trucks are not allowed inside I-285.
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