Driver Crashes Into Buckhead, Georgia Restaurant

Driver Crashes Into Buckhead, Georgia Restaurant, 2011 – Azra Mrkalj, 25, was charged with leaving the scene of an accident, failure to maintain lane and failure to notify owner upon striking a fixture, Atlanta police spokesman Officer John Chafee said.

Atlanta Fire Battalion Chief Edward Hill said there was a two-car accident around 9:30. One of the cars hit the right-front corner of Tin Lizzy’s Cantina on Piedmont Road at Roswell Road.

Hill said neighboring businesses were evacuated.

“The gas is building up inside the building,” he said, and fire crews were ventilating the restaurant.

Piedmont Road and Roswell Road northbound were closed for several hours; both had partially reopened by 12:30.

Mrkalj, the woman who police said was driving the vehicle that hit the building, left the scene. The driver of the other car was treated at the scene for emotional trauma, Hill said.

Laura Underwood, who works at nearby Jolie Day Spa, said police told her the woman was a German citizen. Mrkalj initially left the scene, but later called 911 and surrendered, police said.

Ravi Patel, who owns Carriage Cleaners across Piedmont Road from Tin Lizzy, said his business was shut down by the gas leak.

“Out of all the places they have to hit the gas line. … They shut everything down … It might be a pretty bad day for me,” he said.

Atlanta Airport

Atlanta Airport, Governor-elect Nathan Deal canceled all around its opening ceremonies tomorrow because of the time scheduled during the winter. (Photo by Susanna Capelouto)
Storm warnings of winter in the South are causing flight cancellations and longer lines at grocery stores in the Atlanta area. Several inches of snow forecast to fall overnight also affect the plans for the inauguration of the new governor of Georgia.

Hundreds of flights in and out of the Atlanta airport have been canceled in anticipation of the storm, which should make the conditions of snow and ice.

Grocery stores have good business people provisions of bread and batteries. And former member of Congress and the Republican governor elected Nathan Deal is scaling back the celebration of his inauguration

We will limit activities on Monday to all activities necessary to the inauguration itself. We cancel all other ceremonies.

These include a prayer service the morning and the Inaugural Ball in the evening. Deal is asking people to stay home and watch his inauguration afternoon on television instead.

Source: http://www.gpb.org/news/2011/01/09/deal-cancels-inaugural-ball

Atlanta Snow

Atlanta Snow, The snow that blanketed Metro Atlanta could remain on the ground for several days because the temperature barely get the freezing point throughout the week, according to Channel 2 Action News meteorologist Karen Minton.
These temperatures bitter “road conditions will not improve quickly, and likely to deteriorate. Freezing rain is falling in some areas, and the Department of Transportation encourages drivers to avoid driving “at least until Tuesday.”

Monday’s high temperature will be about 30. Tuesday’s high is 36, with a slight chance of drizzle in the morning. Then, a freezer will be back.

Minton called to heights of 30 and 32 on Wednesday and Thursday. Morning Thursday will be limited to 13, and there is a chance of flurries.

Friday should be a little warmer, a little above freezing point to 35.

In some parts of the metropolitan area, the snow turned to sleet and freezing rain. Up to a quarter inch of ice accumulation is expected in some areas, “said Minton.

Source: http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-weather-snow-could-800233.html

Atlanta Weather

Atlanta Weather, (AP) – As a snowstorm started up the East Coast, airlines have been staffing call centers and taking other steps to improve their performance during the snow storm the week of Christmas.

Some airlines began canceling flights and announce political liberal ticket change Monday.

AirTran Airways canceled all flights on Monday and in Atlanta, and Delta cleaned quarter of its schedule as sleet snarled operations at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson airport, the busiest airport in the country.

AirTran said the rest of its network operating normally. He said the stranded passengers could rebook on flights from Tuesday to Thursday.

By midmorning, Delta had canceled more than 1,450 flights, including Delta Connection regional affiliate. That followed the cancellation of about 500 flights on Sunday. Delta said that affected customers could rebook without paying.

One passenger had complaints after big East Coast storm last month was the inability to achieve the airlines on the phone to postpone travel. In this spirit, Delta tweeted Monday that it has provided call center, adding that the call volume was “very high” because of the time in Atlanta and the Northeast.

JetBlue Airways, in a move likely to become standard in the industry, said it would waive change fees and fare differences for passengers to reschedule travel planned for Wednesday at 14 East Coast airports in Charlotte, NC North, Boston and including all major airports in New York City region.

The end of the December storm closed airports in New York and caused U.S. airlines to cancel more than 10,000 flights. Delta Air Lines Inc. said that the storm will be cut and 45 million profit in the fourth quarter, and the United Continental Holdings Inc. has put its losses related to weather and 10 million.

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