When General Beauregard Lee exited his stately white-columned manor on the grounds of the Yellow River Game Ranchon Groundhog Day morning he signaled to the world that the winter of 2017 was over and that spring had come early. And he hasn’t been wrong. In the two weeks since, most of Northeast Georgia has experienced a barrage of unseasonably warm temperatures from the high 40s to the low 60s, punctuated by lightning-fast overnight storms.