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The University of Georgia has urged students to consider going home for the weekend, though some told 11Alive’s Joe Ripley they were stocked up and hunkering down.
ATHENS, Ga. — Athens and the University of Georgia campus are quiet Saturday morning ahead of the expected impacts from a winter storm that could bring its most disruptive impacts to northeast Georgia.
The school has already urged staff and students to consider going home for the weekend based on the possible accumulation of ice from freezing rain and sleet the storm is expected to bring. UGA also anticipates closing its campus on Monday as ice could continue to be an issue.
11Alive’s Joe Ripley is in Athens, where some students told him they were going to wait things out and hunker down with extra supplies and food.
Preparations are already largely in place from the county, which has declared its own State of Emergency (there is also a statewide State of Emergency in place). Joe was at the county offices Saturday, where a fleet of line trucks is at the ready to begin responding to power outages when they occur (a particular concern with an ice storm is in how it weighs down trees and power lines, leading to outages).
The county’s emergency management coordinator, Meredith Barnum, told 11Alive it will be important to “not let our guard down.”
“We are r ight on that line, and metro Atlanta, where it’s kind of touch and go with what may happen, but really pivoting our response to be worst-case scenario and preparing our citizens for that as well, is the biggest takeaway that we can learn from the past,” she said.
Joe will continue checking in with the county EMA throughout the day.
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