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To: Will88

Georgia ice storms are amazing. I lived many years in the highest elevations of the Appalachians, and never encountered anything like a Georgia ice storm.

One winter in central Georgia, the ice formed on trees and entire forests broke under the ice. The power lines were down for several weeks. The power company gave up trying to repair them, because the ice would form and break them as fast as they could put them back up.


77 posted on 01/30/2014 6:38:27 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: gitmo
Georgia ice storms are amazing.

We have those in Alabama (freezing rain), also, every few years. They will bring down large limbs off trees and break power lines. It is amazing to look at a pine tree and every long needle will be perfectly coated in ice.

But this wasn't an ice storm in most of the South, but a snowstorm (as much as some don't want to believe it) where some of the first snow melted on the highways, then refroze into a sheet of ice and then was covered by more packed snow.

But now, after about 48 hours, it's all gone except in maybe a few very shaded areas and maybe further north.

86 posted on 01/30/2014 6:49:46 PM PST by Will88
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