{"id":31820,"date":"2022-01-13T17:48:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T22:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=31820"},"modified":"2022-01-13T17:52:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T22:52:54","slug":"cobb-county-will-pretreat-bridges-ahead-of-snow-and-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=31820","title":{"rendered":"Cobb County will pretreat bridges ahead of snow and ice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"\/tag\/Cobb-County\">Cobb County<\/a> Department of Transportation crews loaded up spreaders and tested their inclement weather equipment today in preparation&nbsp;for possible wintry weather this weekend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weather forecasters say a <a href=\"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/2022\/01\/13\/snow-update-metro-atlanta-could-get-up-to-an-inch-of-snow\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"31795\">mixture of ice and snow<\/a> could impact Cobb starting early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crews plan on pretreating select bridges, overpasses, and known trouble spots across the county starting around 6 p.m. on Saturday.&nbsp; DOT crews will man shifts around the clock into Monday to treat roads and respond to reports of trouble on hundreds of miles&nbsp;of thoroughfares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The potential for ice, <a href=\"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/2022\/01\/12\/flashback-snow-jam-82-rocked-metro-atlanta-40-years-ago\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"31774\">snow<\/a> or a combination of both makes it a challenging situation to prepare for.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to make sure all the equipment is working and ready,\u201d said Bill Limbaugh, a supervisor with Cobb DOT.&nbsp; \u201cAfter that, we just have to be prepared to deal with whatever comes our way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The potential of hazardous conditions lasting into Monday has impacted the planning for the distribution of COVID test kits. The county recently purchased more than 60-thousand kits to distribute to residents. There were some initial reports of a distribution&nbsp;event planned for Monday, Jan. 17.&nbsp; But the weather threat has prompted Cobb County officials to postpone any public event until later in the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=7]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cobb County Department of Transportation crews loaded up spreaders and tested their inclement weather equipment today in preparation&nbsp;for possible wintry weather this weekend. Weather forecasters say a mixture of ice and snow could impact Cobb starting early Sunday morning. Crews plan on pretreating select bridges, overpasses, and known trouble spots across the county starting around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6067],"tags":[8486,9153,8865,10752],"class_list":["post-31820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather","tag-cobb-county","tag-snow","tag-weather","tag-winter-weather","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}