James Warner, right, and his wife, Gail, talk about driving the perimeter road around Atlanta on Wednesday morning while taking a break at the Tennessee Interstate 75 Welcome Center in East Ridge. “We drove it in the daylight,” Warner said. “It was just easier to see which lane was best, with the ice and all.”Snow and ice cut traffic at the Tennessee Welcome Center on Interstate 75 to a fraction of its usual pace Wednesday.
While the welcome center offers a 24-hour facility to travelers, Wednesday was the first day that assistant Jean Milligan was able to make it to work since Sunday night.
As of 11 a.m., only a handful of people had stopped at the center, she said.
“We get anywhere from 300 to 500 people here daily,” Milligan said. “We’ve had about 20 to 25 people so far today. It’s going to be a slow day.”
Motorists traveling north said highways and interstates around Atlanta were down to a few slick lanes.