On Today’s Date: Worst Atlanta Ice Storm Since Great Depression

Southern ice storms are a fact of life almost every winter.

On Jan. 8, 1973, 52 years ago today, Atlanta’s worst ice storm since the Great Depression wrapped up, but left a mess behind.

After kicking off with freezing rain and sleet the previous morning, over an inch of ice accumulation made roads impassable, downed trees, power lines and telephone lines across northern Georgia…

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