Ice Storm – 1941

By Reno Bailey

It likely hit in January or February of that year. At left is a house on Main Street in Cliffside, probably the Baptist preacher’s. Meanwhile, up the road at the curve in Caroleen, someone has narrowly escaped sliding off into an icy stream. It was surely a day for staying home, putting more coal in the heater, and snuggling up with a Saturday Evening Post.

An icy road curving around in front of a Caroleen mill house. On the near side of the road, a car has slid partially off the shoulder of the road, just barely clinging to the lip of the steep embankment leading to a stream below. Three men stand away from the car contemplating their immediate future. — Curve at Caroleen

In the foreground small twigs and fallen ice clutter the ground on this gloomy day in Cliffside. Across the street is a large, white, snowy-roofed house, home of the Baptist preacher. — An icy day on North Main

Photos courtesy Nancy Brown Wallace. (Most likely they were taken by her father, Esper Brown.)