FANNIN COUNTY, Ga. — People across north Georgia and metro Atlanta enjoyed a snow day on Friday, but it’s not always just fun and games. Channel 2′s Bryan Mims was in Fannin County in the north Georgia mountains where snow and ice caused an accident on a slick highway that sent a woman to the hospital.

The winter storm system that has been moving across a large portion of the United States finally made its way to North Georgia on Friday morning. Here are the preliminary snow totals.

The snowstorm that began falling on Oklahoma continued into Friday morning, leaving inches of snow as it moved out of the area.

The Georgia Department of Agriculture announced it had detected a case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, sometimes called bird flu, in a small, backyard flock of chickens and ducks in Clayton County.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in a backyard flock in Oakland County, the second case reported in the county since 2022.