THOMASVILLE — This time, Thomasville’s snow — that’s right, snow — brought visitors to town.

The Stiell family drove up from Tallahassee, Florida, on Wednesday morning and took in the snow-covered grounds of Paradise Park, so 6-year-old Jackson could make snowballs and see the white stuff.

“He’s super excited,” said his mother Cecilia. “He’s never seen snow.”

The Stiells decided to make the drive from Tallahassee “because it doesn’t look like this.”

Allison Barwick had her children, 11-year-old Kennon and 7-year-old Kaillyn, in the park to play in the snow.

“This is our first time,” Kennon said of seeing snow. 

Allison Barwick has lived in Thomasville all her life and recalled seeing this much snow only one other time, when she was 4 years old back in the 1980s.

“That’s the last time it snowed like this,” she said.

On Clay Street, a miniature snowman in the middle of the road greeted passing motorists. Its creators stood nearby to watch the cars roll slowly without harming it.

“It’s Thomasville’s own unicorn,” said Austin Bentley, one of the snowman’s makers. “We actually wanted to make a larger one.”

Snow began falling around 8 a.m. and covered cars, roofs and yards. But the slowly rising temperatures erased much of the snow by mid-morning.

Editor Pat Donahue can be reached at (229) 226-2400 ext. 1806.

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