About 2” of snow in NWGA just outside Rossville

[Rogasingingdawg]

Still coming down, but not expecting much more accumulation.

Enough to close all area schools and enough to close the elderly day care  where I was supposed to sing at noon.

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Here's the cedars just outside my patio fence blanketed in snow.

[Toasty B]

[Rogasingingdawg]

Rossville was a great blue collar town 60 years ago. When all the textile mills began closing, it began falling into disrepair.

Was a regional center for women's clothing too post WWII until the late 60's/early 70s with 5 large dress shops drawing ladies from not only Chattanooga, but Atlanta, Birmingham, Nashville, Knoxville and a bunch of small towns in between.
Big malls opening around the southeast slowly killed the dress shop business.

Now all the small owner occupied houses with neatly kept yards in town are almost all now rental property with many if not most occupied by the dregs of society.

I'm sure similar things have happened in many of the former textile towns around the southeast.

[McDonoughDawg]

Cold rain in Peachtree City...winter break for the kids also all week.

[JC-DAWG83]

Rossville was a great blue collar town 60 years ago.  When all the textile mills began closing, it began falling into disrepair.

Was a regional center for women's clothing too post WWII until the late 60's/early 70s with 5 large dress shops drawing ladies from not only Chattanooga, but Atlanta, Birmingham, Nashville, Knoxville and a bunch of small towns in between.
Big malls opening around the southeast slowly killed the dress shop business.

Now all the small owner occupied houses with neatly kept yards in town are almost all now rental property with many if not most occupied by the dregs of society.

I'm sure similar things have happened in many of the former textile towns around the southeast.

This describes the majority of small towns above the fall line in Georgia and the Southeast in general.  Driving through the piedmont of South Carolina can be depressing when you look at all of the empty downtown commercial buildings and run down homes in the towns that used to be relatively prosperous.  The Horse Creek Valley that runs between Aiken, SC and Augusta used to be a continuous string of mills, finishing plants and sewing plants.  All of them are gone now and the area is very depressed.  Augusta had 3 large textile mills, Enterprise, King and Sibley built along the canal.  A very large blue collar community lived in the shadows of those mills in mill villages made up of shotgun houses for the workers and nicer homes for the managers.  Those neighborhoods are now full of decaying rental houses and have become ghettos.   The medical college and hospitals have been buying up whole blocks of houses near campus and simply tearing all the houses down and leaving vacant land in order to push the ghetto boundary away from the school and the hospitals.

Those mill jobs weren't going to make anyone rich but they did offer people without a lot of education or marketable skills a way to make a living.

[Toasty B]

Rossville was a great blue collar town 60 years ago.  When all the textile mills began closing, it began falling into disrepair.

Was a regional center for women's clothing too post WWII until the late 60's/early 70s with 5 large dress shops drawing ladies from not only Chattanooga, but Atlanta, Birmingham, Nashville, Knoxville and a bunch of small towns in between.
Big malls opening around the southeast slowly killed the dress shop business.

Now all the small owner occupied houses with neatly kept yards in town are almost all now rental property with many if not most occupied by the dregs of society.

I'm sure similar things have happened in many of the former textile towns around the southeast.

This describes the majority of small towns above the fall line in Georgia and the Southeast in general.  Driving through the piedmont of South Carolina can be depressing when you look at all of the empty downtown commercial buildings and run down homes in the towns that used to be relatively prosperous.  The Horse Creek Valley that runs between Aiken, SC and Augusta used to be a continuous string of mills, finishing plants and sewing plants.  All of them are gone now and the area is very depressed.  Augusta had 3 large textile mills, Enterprise, King and Sibley built along the canal.  A very large blue collar community lived in the shadows of those mills in mill villages made up of shotgun houses for the workers and nicer homes for the managers.  Those neighborhoods are now full of decaying rental houses and have become ghettos.   The medical college and hospitals have been buying up whole blocks of houses near campus and simply tearing all the houses down and leaving vacant land in order to push the ghetto boundary away from the school and the hospitals.

Those mill jobs weren't going to make anyone rich but they did offer people without a lot of education or marketable skills a way to make a living.

You'll wind up in some factory
That's full of filth and nowhere left to go
Walk home to an empty house
Sit around all by yourself
I know it might sound strange but I believe
You'll be coming back before too long
Don't go back to Rossville

[Zolotisty]

This is South Georgia's anthem. The only thing we make around here anymore is bad fast food.

[ugafan49]

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