Going to try and report on what I hear on the police scanner every so often.

1:30pm Mechanical breakdown on Chapel Hill north of Whistler Drive.
1:34pm Vehicle moved off road, awaiting wrecker.
1:35pm Something in the woods, officer having to go on foot in order to avoid getting patrol car stuck.
1:39pm Ramp to interstate blocked, traffic not allowed to go on interstate.  Checked georgia-navigator.com, don’t see anything about this on there.
1:42pm Second officer will sit on bridge to divert traffic.
1:43pm Officer asks how long road will be shut down…dispatch says it’s being shut down to get sanded.

4:26pm  Someone appears to be injured…heard a lifeflight helicopter was about to land.
4:28pm Helicopter landing on the interstate.  Person possibly missing from accident.
4:30pm Sand needed on Hwy 166 near Shell Road to the county line…both ways it is a “sheet of ice” and people are getting stuck on the hill.
4:35pm Skyview Drive between Thornton Road and Nissan dealership needs sand.
4:37pm Six cars stuck off Edgeworth Subdivision.
4:39pm Broken down vehicle successfully started again.
4:40pm Stuck truck at Hwy 92 and 78.
4:41pm Officer that was supposed to be blocking traffic from getting on interstate left…20 cars got on.  Officer heading over to block ramp.
4:42pm Helicopter landing in a different place.
4:46pm Car in a ditch and a SUV stuck in the middle of the road.
4:47pm Ice on a hill on Post Road, sand needed, cars backed up.
4:48pm Officer instructs another to keep the interstate shut down after helicopter takes off.
4:51pm Ice on Simon Road.
4:52pm Skyview at Crestmark to Thornton Road has ice.  Put on the sand list.
4:56pm Middle lane of interstate to be open soon.
4:57pm Wreck at Cave Springs at Old Dallas w/ possible injuries.
4:58pm Stewart Mill at Mill Glen is covered in ice…officer just got several cars out of it.
4:58pm Cave Springs at Old Dallas added to sand list…”it’s bad”
5:01pm Truck stuck at Hwy 92 and Campbellton.  Stuck on railroad tracks.
5:02pm Vehicle on Cave Springs hit a telephone pole, and there’s another wreck on Old Dallas Hwy.  Sand needed “bad.”
5:06pm Vehicle stuck at Huey & Cambridge on ice.
5:09pm Concern for welfare call on hold.

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