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Date Posted: Thursday, February 02, 11:17:01am
Author: BJ
Subject: Sorry Yankees, General Beauregard Lee predicts early spring

The groundhog, who lives at the Yellow River Game Ranch in Lilburn, waddled nervously out of his house at 7:34 a.m. this morning and didn't see his shadow.

A few minutes before Beau's prediction was made, it was announced that Punxsutawney Phil � the famous groundhog in Pennsylvania � saw his shadow and therefore predicted more winter.

'Things are going to be cold and miserable for six more weeks. Just what we'd expect in Pennsylvania,' Art Rilling, the ranch's founder and the event's emcee, quipped.

The annual rite is much more than a weather prediction based on ancient folklore. (Very few television astrologers could get someone out of bed to stand around in 39-degree weather to see if a cold front is moving in.) It's a community event.

This morning, at least 150 people full of coffee stood around for an hour-and-a-half awaiting the woodchuck's 26th annual forecast.

Among those present was the event's honorary bell-ringer Eric Lanford of Turner Broadcasting System, several people with Feb. 2. birthdays, and a fearless deer that wandered into the crowd despite the occasional child that tried to ride it.

The event's honorary woodchuck feeder was Cub Scout Jason Brown.

What kind of grub do they feed a groundhog today? Why, hashbrowns � scattered, smothered, and covered.

That last sentence is not a joke. Waffle House, which helped out with the event, provided the side dish to go with Beau's daily vegetables.

Sarah Etheridge, 12, of Grayson, was one of the birthday girls present. She was chosen as the honorary VIP to officially declare the marmot's prediction. Etheridge herself was hoping the fur-covered forecaster would see its shadow. 'I want it to snow.'

When asked what prediction it hoped the groundhog would make, the deer had no response.

It did, however, look like it wanted some hashbrowns.

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