State of emergency declared ahead of winter storm

Posted 10:46PM on Tuesday 24th February 2015 ( 9 years ago )

ATLANTA - Governor Nathan Deal has declared a state of emergency for disaster preparedness in 50 north Georgia counties ahead of a winter storm that is expected to arrive on Wednesday.

Deal has ordered that the state of emergency go into effect starting at 2 p.m. Wednesday. He also announced that all state government offices in areas affected by the storm will be closing their doors at noon that same day.

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