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![A snow-covered Broad Street is seen in 1973. [File/The Augusta Chronicle]](/gcdn/authoring/2019/02/09/NAUG/ghows-GA-817e2cc2-9f97-2d63-e053-0100007f1da4-da927ecf.jpeg?width=660&height=481&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp)
FEB. 10, 1973
By the time snow quit falling on Saturday, Feb. 10, 1973, 14 inches covered the ground – the largest two-day accumulation since 1914. The town shut down, and Aiken had it even worse with 18 inches.
National guardsmen and Army reserves were called in from throughout the Southeast to assist in transporting doctors, nurses, police, telephone and power technicians to work; delivering food and medications to residents; and rescuing stranded motorists.
A study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said a "freak combination" of factors led to the storm, which might have resulted in as much as $80 million in property damage and snow removal in Georgia and South Carolina.