Hall Co. medics use 4x4 vehicles on some calls

GAINESVILLE - Hall County para-medics had to use alternative means of transportation on some ambulance runs Thursday morning.

Fire & EMS spokesman Scott Cagle said "Northern Hall County roads are the most impacted. We are having to utilize a 4x4 (4-wheel drive) on some medical calls."

Otherwise, Cagle says was a pretty uneventful morning.

"Still low call volume this morning. Just a couple of wrecks."

That wasn't the case in many parts of north Georgia Wednesday afternoon when the snow started and again Thursday morning. But, so far there have been no reports of any deaths or serious injuries attributed to the storm.

Other parts of the South were also in the cross-hairs of this storm, from north Texas through the Gulf Coast states and into the Carolinas and Virginia. Parts of northern Alabama and Georgia picked up nearly ten inches of heavy, wet snow, causing tree damage and power outages.

In Georgia, snowfall ranged from around 8 inches in some mountain regions to about an inch in places closer to Atlanta such as Gainesville: 7.1 inches in Blairsville, 4.6 inches in Dahlonega, 3 inches in Dawsonville, and 8 inches in northern Dawson County. Parts of north Georgia were crippled by an ice storm last week.

Schools closed and states of emergencies were declared ahead of the storm.

Relief - in the form of higher temperatures - was expected Thursday.