What is the largest ice storm in Atlanta is it 1973?

Answer 1

For those of us who lived through it, it was not only the largest but the longest ice storm in Atlanta! This was a time before technology offered meteorologists the luxury of predicting storms of this magnitude. It hit Atlanta on a Sunday afternoon with no warning. People weren't prepared for what was to come. Atlanta was brought to its knees. Nothing or no one went anywhere. Very few people had electricity. Some of us went days and even weeks without power. You couldn't reach the fire dept or police dept when Transformers would blow or were knocked down by falling trees which were heavy from the weight of freezing rain and ice. They would catch cars, houses and anything in its path on fire as they fell. As nighttime descending upon us, it brought dark skies with the exception of the blue fireworks from exploding transformers. Throughout the night you could hear the sound of cracking trees then the fall of them as they sank to the ground taking everything in its path. It was a very, very long night and the days that followed were cold and unforgettable.