Atlantic County: Stay Off The Roads

GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, NJ - If you're driving in the snowstorm and you're not an emergency services or an essential worker, get off the roads.

That's the message from the Atlantic County Office of Emergency Management, which declared a State of Emergency throughout the county and banned all travel on roadways except for police, fire, emergency services and essential services personnel.

The county is getting hammered by the storm, with snow falling at the rate of two to three inches per hour and wind gusts between 40 to 50 miles per hour. There were also over 700 power outages reported Thursday afternoon, according to the Atlantic City Electric Outage Map. Track outages here.

Temperatures are expected to plummet by tonight.

Photo: Patricia A. Miller