In mid-February 2015, a rare ice storm dipped into the Deep South, causing havoc in the northern third of Georgia, but it could have been worse here.
The storm, which caused more than 200,000 Georgia households and businesses to lose power at one point, was similar to the winter storm forecast this week for Southeast Tennessee and North Georgia.
The icing event in 2015 stretched from Walker, Catoosa and Whitfield counties in the north to the suburban Atlanta counties of Cobb and Gwinnett in the south. Chattooga County escaped the icing, according to historical maps of the weather event.
Still, a major storm for the Chattanooga area, which had been forecast in 2015, failed to materialize.
In 2015, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported: “A little hot air blew away all that talk about snowpocalypses and states of emergency. … The region’s residents refreshed their weather apps early and often this weekend, watching to see if snow would hit their streets and cripple transportation systems. Instead, they awoke Monday to a gray, rainy day. The end of times, this was not.”