I remmember this vividly, too. I left my folks home close to Cobb Center going down Austell Road, it was only a 25 minute drive, barley made it to Mableton, at the top of Hillside Drive (next to the big watertower) everything stoped and all the cars were like sleds heading towards the bottom of the Road. My kids loved it!
1973 was bad in Austell, some of the power was out for more than 2 weeks, a real ice storm.
The Blizzard of 1993, March 5, 1st Blizzard in 100 years, really cold, remmember? Found out later my son tried to ice skate on the pool, it was frozen almost solid in the shal