WINTER STORM: Hall County update

7:00 A.M. UPDATE

FROM HALL COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT & HOMELAND SECURITY:

Current Weather Conditions:
Temperature: 33F
Wind Speed: W 15mph Gusts 25mph
Wind Chill: 23F
No Precipitation

Forecasted Weather:
Today: Mostly sunny high 37F, West wind 10-15mph, with gusts as high as 25mph.
Anticipated Precipitation Amounts:
Total snow and ice accumulation: None

Advisories/watches/warnings:
Winter Storm Warning until 0700

Road Conditions/Issues/Closures:
– OLD FLOWERY BRANCH RD / MCEVER RD
– VAUGHANDALE CIR AT DAWSONVILLE HWY TO SARDIS CHURCH RD
– MONROE DR – ROAD CLOSED FROM ATHENS HWY TO DANBURY LN

-323 BETWEEN F GILMER AND HIGHWAY 52 – CLOSED

Power Outages:
GA Power: 95
Jackson EMC: 73
Sawnee Electric: Site Down
Habersham EMC: 0

About the Author

Ken Stanford is Online News Editor for GLORY 97.5, a position he has held since August 2022.

Ken was born in Moultrie, Georgia, and says he knew from the time he was 5 or 6 he wanted to be a “radio announcer.” That dream was realized when he was hired by Moultrie radio station WMTM in 1960 at the age of 15 as a weekend disc jockey. A 1963 graduate of Moultrie (now Colquitt County) High School, he has spent his whole career in Georgia working for stations in Atlanta, Marietta, and Gainesville – most recently as News Director for 40 years at WDUN in Gainesville. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force Reserves.

Ken retired in 2011 but came out of retirement last year to help GLORY, on a part-time basis, beef-up its online news presence.

He is the recipient of many Associated Press awards and is a former judge of state and national Associated Press broadcast news contests. In 2005, he was presented with the Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Association’s President’s Award for Excellence in Journalism and in 2019 was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame.

He lives in Gainesville with his wife of 52 years, the former Sandra McKnight of Clio, Alabama, and they have one child, a daughter, Lisa, who lives in Cumming with her family.