Sac Fly: Remembering Snowmaggedon

Thursday, June 19, 2025

Remembering Snowmaggedon

Snowmageddon, back about ten years ago. I was at work at the office over in Duluth. The "snow" (actually ice) was coming in from the west, so all the employees who lived east of the plant were safe. Me and others left out around 12:30 pm in our cars. I went my regular route: south on Peachtree Industrial, west on Spaulding, west on Holcomb Bridge. Thought I better stop for gas so I wouldn't run out sitting in traffic, which was just creeping along. Hours past. Had the radio on AM750 WSB. Texts were flying back and forth from coworkers about whether the routes they had chosen were paying off. Tim was north of me on Old Milton Parkway. I turned left on Eves Road, but the hill down to the river was impassable. Had to turn around and go back to Holcomb Bridge. This was where coworker Ellsworth had stopped at Kroger – where he wound up spending the night.

I knew I'd be in trouble if the next left turn didn't work out. Otherwise it was uphill for a mile to HB and GA400, which was gridlocked. But my left into Martins Landing took me over to Riverside and Azelia, which was flat. Made decent time across Roswell Road over west of the Roswell Square. From there the rest of the way was up and down one big hill to another, so I parked my car at a little shopping center. Put on every garment that I had in the car. Changed from dress shoes into sneakers and set out on foot. Up and down one big hill to the halfway point: the Stinky Kroger. Stopped in there to warm up, then went out and walked the rest of the way. Only fell once, on my street walking down a hill. Turned my body so I wouldn't land on my briefcase, which held my computer. Arrived home at 830 pm, an 8 hour commute. Walked the last 3 miles.

According to my list, I have read 39 of Grisham's books, more than Reid's 32.

Jim Ewing caught a big fish. His son George posted the photo on social media.

JJ won the US Open. The question of the day was who is your favorite person who goes by their initials? I said record-setting Georgia Tech placekicker E.O. Whealler, who has an amazing story. Even profiled in Sports Illustrated back in the day. I've written about old E.O. before.

Jason Day was wearing some cool dude Air Jordan looking hightops at the US Open, perhaps made by Malbon, a company that M is familiar with. Malbon also makes adidas Stan Smith golf shoes.

For Father's Day, Ceil gave me a sheet of the new Hank Aaron stamps. I'll probably use them when I mail things. Maybe Christmas cards.

Saw a cool old Cadillac convertible in the parking lot: Ole Blue.

Scientists detect mysterious radio waves coming from beneath Antarctica ice.

FRANK HOWARD [SABR Bio] said "The distance of every tape-measure home run depends upon your press agent." Some of the longer ones he hit at RFK were measurable & remained visibly marked for years. Howard was the NL ROY in 1960 with the Dodgers and ranked 4th & 5th in 1969 & 1970 in AL MVP voting, behind winners Harmon Killebrew & Boog Powell. Howard's first round-tripper was off future Hall of Famer Robin Roberts on 10-Sep-1958, that year's NL WAR leader with 6.3. Other hurlers headed for Cooperstown who surrendered HRs to Howard were Warren Spahn, Juan Marichal, Bob Gibson, Gaylord Perry, Hoyt Wilhelm, Whitey Ford, Jim Palmer, Catfish Hunter, and Jim Kaat.