A massive winter storm roared into the East Coast on Thursday, threatening to dump as much as 18 inches of snow from the Carolinas to Maine and unleashing hurricane-force winds and flooding that closed schools and offices and halted transportation systems.
A massive winter system is leaving the east coast under snow and ice. The impacts from the initial wrath to our region may have been minimal, but strong wind and freezing conditions following behind this system will cause dangerous wind chills.
Emergency dispatchers in several counties say phones are ringing off the hook as slide offs keep happening throughout our area.
A brutal winter storm smacked the coastal Southeast with a rare blast of snow and ice Wednesday, hitting parts of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina with their heaviest snowfall in nearly three decades.
Check out these pictures of snow falling across the Carolinas!
A brutal winter storm scattered a wintry mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain from normally balmy north Florida up the Southeast seaboard Wednesday, adding to the misery of a bitter cold snap as bridges iced over and cars spun out on slickened overpasses.
As the state begins preparations for the first winter storm of 2018, officials are urging residents to take necessary precautions of their own.
Dangerously cold temperatures blamed for at least nine deaths have wreaked havoc across a wide swath of the U.S., freezing a water tower in Iowa, halting ferry service in New York and leading officials to open warming centers even in the Deep South.
The storm system attacking the Mississippi River and to the east started in Nebraska, swept across Iowa and will dump several inches of snow on Chicago.
The snow that blanketed parts of the Deep South on Friday delighted schoolchildren with an unexpected holiday but also revived panicky memories for many adults of past storms that trapped commuters on interstates for hours.
A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect for the following counties until 7am Saturday.
Snow in Fargo
On Wednesday, the National Weather Service in Greenville-Spartanburg announced that an EF2 tornado did touch down Monday evening at the Hickory Regional Airport based on their preliminary findings.
Residents say damage may be worse than Hurricane Hugo.
Take a look at some of the damage left behind as storms rolled through the Carolinas on October 23rd.
It's been more than a week since a tornado roared through Hudson in Caldwell County, and there's been little to no help from state and federal agencies.
