Graphic Intensive Post !!! Huge Files !!! The major snowstorm of Feb 15-17, 1969 is one of the biggest I can find in the western Piedmont and especially Foothills region of NC. It was small on the geographic zone, but all factors came together to produce a very deep , devastating snowstorm and coincidentally was the storm that I was conceived in. My dad thinks Shelby got nearly 2 feet of snow, but in the records I can only officially find 15 to 17" here, which is around the 1987 snowstorm, and