This Friday there is a 30% chance of snow and rain predicted. Never does it accumulate or pile up in Macon when you expect it. The people go crazy and buy bread and milk at the first hint of snow (what if the juice goes out and the weather becomes warm? What of your milk, then?)
Perhaps it is the memory of the unexpected snow of 1973. The graphic shows how the Weather Bureau was blindsided. They expected rain but for three or four days Macon was paralyzed. Without the aid of 4WD vehicles, most from the National Guard, we would have been in big trouble. The Middle Georgia CB Club (predecessor to REACT) volunteer group was of immense aid. For the first time the local Civil Defense (later called EMA) got its feet wet (and cold) in a real crisis. They did well.
Not that Friday will give us much of what we saw happen up north this week. Then again....
