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The Troup County Sheriff’s Office is warning that some roads, especially less traveled county roads are likely to remain dangerously icy into Thursday.

Lt. Stewart Smith, TCSO Public Information Officer,  said they expect the major concern to be when wet roads refreeze overnight.

“As the sun is coming out, it is thawing some of the roads. Our issue is a lot of these outlying roads that don’t get a lot of sun during the day. The [snow] is not going to be completely melted away and is going to refreeze,” Smith said. “We’ve only got a good five hours of sun when the sun goes down, it’s just going to refreeze back into the teens.”

Any motorists who brave the roadways will be dealing with black ice issues, Smith said.

“Not as bad as [Tuesday] night, but I think there’s going to be some concerns for travel overnight and early morning hours,” Smith warned.

Tuesday night was particularly rough on motorists and first responders. Smith said they had about 65 wrecks countywide in three hours starting around 3:15 p.m. Tuesday.

“We were just trying to get to them the best we could. Some of the cars just slid off the road, and they were able to call their own wreckers to get them pulled at that point, and some of them multi-vehicle wrecks,” he said.

Making matters worse, law enforcement still had to respond to their regular calls.

“We had domestic fights. We had disagreements. We had thefts. A lot of that stuff doesn’t stop, unfortunately,” Smith said.

“I don’t think there any major injuries. We were just taking it one call at a time,” he said.