Some historical footnotes from the pages of the past:While North Georgia this year suffered from heat and drought most all summer and into the fall, in 1918 one of the worst ice storms ever struck Hall County. Snow had fallen in December of 1917, and more fell the next month. Sleet followed, and the Gainesville News described the noise of trees and limbs crashing to the ground, as well as the falling of telephone and telegraph wires.