redlevel
Senior Member
On Friday, Feb. 10 through Saturday, Feb. 11 1973, it snowed 21 inches on the Red Level, just about three miles South of Butler. I measured 21" of snow in a 20 acre field on our farm. If you are familiar with that stretch of US 19, our farm is about a mile West and just South of the watermelon packing shed that was built right on 19 a few years ago.
It started snowing Friday afternoon and continued until Saturday afternoon. Lots of college students almost got stranded that Friday as they tried to make it home. They figured if they were North of Butler and headed South, they would be OK, but it only snowed a few inches in North Georgia. It pretty well shut down Taylor County, and most of Middle Georgia. The heavy snow pulled down power lines, and we were out of electricity on the farm for more than a week. The roads were impassable to the farm for a week in a regular truck. There were very few 4wd vehicles then as compared to now. A neighbor with a dual rear wheel tractor broke trail to our place. He came through every morning to check on us and take an order for canned goods and stuff from the country store on the highway. We had gas space heaters and a gas stove. It got old toting them slop jars out in the snow, though.
Road machines piled up huge piles of snow on the courthouse lawn in Butler as they got the streets cleared. The temps fell into single digits for two nights in a row and the piles of snow froze into huge blocks of ice. They finally finished melting two weeks later.
Some people are getting excited about the predictions of snow tomorrow, but I hope I never see another flake.
It started snowing Friday afternoon and continued until Saturday afternoon. Lots of college students almost got stranded that Friday as they tried to make it home. They figured if they were North of Butler and headed South, they would be OK, but it only snowed a few inches in North Georgia. It pretty well shut down Taylor County, and most of Middle Georgia. The heavy snow pulled down power lines, and we were out of electricity on the farm for more than a week. The roads were impassable to the farm for a week in a regular truck. There were very few 4wd vehicles then as compared to now. A neighbor with a dual rear wheel tractor broke trail to our place. He came through every morning to check on us and take an order for canned goods and stuff from the country store on the highway. We had gas space heaters and a gas stove. It got old toting them slop jars out in the snow, though.
Road machines piled up huge piles of snow on the courthouse lawn in Butler as they got the streets cleared. The temps fell into single digits for two nights in a row and the piles of snow froze into huge blocks of ice. They finally finished melting two weeks later.
Some people are getting excited about the predictions of snow tomorrow, but I hope I never see another flake.