30 years later, local residents share memories from the storm
It is one of those natural disasters that will go down in memory for all those who experienced it – simply because it was such an odd happenstance during a warm spell, it may still be unbelievable for many who lived through it.
Yes, the Blizzard of 1993 happened 30 years ago at the beginning of the week, and I put a call out to readers on Facebook asking for their memories from the big snow.
Of note, Carmen Bear Burch shared the featured image for this article from the shirts that Cedarstream made at the time.
Here’s what you had to say about the snowstorm and your memories from the days spent buried under:
We had a wood burning heater to supplement an electric heat pump. Our power was off for many days. We burned our stacked decomposed wood, some old wooden chairs, and no telling what else! We used the snow and ice on the deck for a refrigerator. Using the wood burning heater and charcoal grill we cooked the best food ever! Made good memories, we were all stuck at home together and living like 100 years ago!
Gathering With Grace
Rebecca Crawford shared: “Over the knees in ’93.” Robby Steele also added: “We had a great time during all of it.”
I definitely feel Cissy Fenley on her story below, since my own birthday fell during the Blizzard of ’93:
We were supposed to have my sisters birthday party that weekend, my mom had just bought a bunch of party good thankfully. We had hotdogs for days! I also remember my mama putting gallons of milk out in the snow to keep them cold. Lol! 🤣😅 I was little but I remember the blizzard.
Teresa Anderson Womack shared:
I remember it very well. Just two weeks before the blizzard was when the tornado came through Prior Station rd. We weren’t even finished cleaning up from that and then the blizzard came. The national guard even got stranded out here and had to walk back to town. I could go on and on about it. I just know that I never want to see that much snow ever AGAIN
Mary Denton added:
We were without power for 2 weeks. We kept our meat on the front porch covered with snow. Cooked on our wood heater in living room. Heated with wood heater. No TV, no phone, no communication with anyone. Don’t want to go through that again.
This story, well… how is one supposed to react to this situation at any time:
We got almost 400,000 ,one day old baby chicks the day before the blizzard. We had to run a generator with a tractor to keep them warm. We lost a lot of them because they would huddle up to keep warm.
Brenda Meeker sent:
I remember it well I was pregnant and couldn’t get out my front door had to go out the back and went down face first trying to get next door to get warm. We had no power for a week but the bright side nothing in our freezer went bad.
Robby Steele later added another comment:
We had a Gas Heater, My Mom Step Dad and Sister had to Stay with Us because a Tree had Fallen on Their Chimney. And They were Total Electric with no Power.
Rachel Garner said:
We had no power for a week and we couldn’t get the vcr tapes out of the vcr to return them. No power and they were just stuck in there. The video store waved the late fee until the power came back. Lol! We don’t even have these things anymore.
Kimmie Ann Pace shared a heartbreaking story from the days of snow and ice:
Me and my mom got kicked out in the snow by my father and his mother… I only had on a diaper because I was potty training at the time .. all I remember was it was freezing and we was walking from rockmart to Cedartown and officer joy Wagner(R.I.P) picked us up and gave us a ride home ..
Finally, Dorothy Wood added:
And no water… had to melt snow after all we drawn was gone….
