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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Flood Watch Extended, Possible Snow on Thursday

Peachtree Corners could get its first glimpse this winter of the white stuff as rain across north Georgia may turn to snow with the arrival of a deep cold air mass.

Peachtree Corners and north Georgia could get the first snow of the winter and 2013 on Thursday night, according to the National Weather Service. A strong low pressure system combined with Gulf moisture will meet, resulting in widespread rain and an associated deep cold air mass that will begin to spread across north and central Georgia on Thursday afternoon and evening, meteorologists say in a special weather statement. As a result, rain could change over to snow across parts of north Georgia. Despite recent unseasonably warm temps, residents could see some light accumulations of snow across parts of north Georgia by mid to late Thursday afternoon or evening, mainly on elevated and grassy surfaces. While folks as far south as a LaGrange-…

Friday, January 14, 2011

Thawing Out: Slowly, it's Back to Business as Usual

After four days of snow and ice, many Peachtree Corners residents began venturing out on Friday.

The rare, heavy snow was as beautiful as a Currier & Ives Christmas card, no doubt.  But cabin fever had started to take hold in Peachtree Corners-Berkeley Lake by midweek. Fortunately, the roads and sidewalks had cleared enough by then for a lot of folks to “step into the sun, step into the light” - and The Forum seemed to be one place where the chilled happy campers started to gather. “I think people were about to go stir crazy,” says Rita Lacey-Ward.  She’s been with Caribou Coffee for six years, much of that time at The Forum location. The warm Caribou Coffee shop was filled with inviting aromas and laptop lovers surfing the net like wave worshippers on Maui, as winter’s grip on metro Atlanta held tight just outside the frosty windows …

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