it would have little effect on the rest of the region. Additionally, Georgia public schools are organized under the Georgia Department of Education, thus school districts are not under local government control. State freeways are also outside the jurisdiction of local authorities, and the state did not even permit snow removal or other treatment of surface state routes until January 2011, when Atlanta was forced to wait two days to treat the heavy snow and freezing rain that had frozen solid together on the city's main street, Peachtree Street, since it is also a state route (9 and 141). Therefore, the only thing that the mayor has legal or practical authority to do is to make sure that city streets are treated out to the city limits, and to encourage those businesses in the extended central business district to either let employees go earlier in a staggered and orderly fashion, or to keep them at home to begin with. To avoid future snows from becoming disasters, Mayor Reed has decided to hire an emergency manager for the city, in hopes of coordinating a more regional response, although it is unclear if suburban counties with a long-time antipathy toward the city will accept such an outreach. Governor Deal is convening a Severe Weather Warning Task Force that includes local and state officials, as well as meteorologists from the National Weather Service, the locally headquartered Weather Channel, and from local TV stations, including Ken Cook with 40 years at WAGA-TV 5, and Chesley McNeil at WXIA-TV 11 since 2009, after coming from snowy Buffalo, New York. Snowfall totals Below is a list of selected snowfall totals from the storm. See also Winter storm naming in the United States February 2014 nor'easter References 2013–14 North American winter 2014 in Alabama 2014 in Florida 2014 in Georgia (U.S. state) 2014 in Louisiana January 2014 events in Mexico 2014 in Texas 2014 natural disasters in the United States 2014 in Mexico Natural disasters in Mexico January 2014 events in the United States Natural disasters in Florida Natural disasters in North Carolina Natural disasters in Virginia Natural disasters in Georgia (U.S. state)