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Across the ABC-13 Viewing Area - It's the worst storm we've had here in years. Schools across the viewing area gave students a day to enjoy the weather.
The snow also made for great snowman conditions. We got anywhere from 4 inches in the least hit areas to a whopping
14 inches reported in Huddleston.
The snow's moved out but we may still be in for a rough night.
The big warning tonight: everything that's melted is likely to freeze. Because when a lot of that snow melted, the water just flowed back on top the roadway.
Most of Langhorne is pretty dry right now, but route 501 between Lynchburg and Rustburg is just covered in water. And transportation officials say that's what leads to black ice. They also want you to be careful when traveling on overpasses, because cold air causes them to freeze first.
Shaded areas underneath overpasses can also produce slick spots too. VDOT (web) says they'll have crews salting and sanding the primary roads and overpasses to keep them from freezing, but as the temperature drops they say traveling will get dangerous.
Paula Jones, VDOT - "The temperature right now it's just slightly above freezing, but there is a good wind out here. And that's going to bring the temperatures down as well. And once the sunlight is gone, we've been very grateful for the sunlight today, once that's gone, temperatures are going to drop rapidly, and roads are going to freeze."
VDOT says some secondary and side roads in the area have not been plowed yet, and some may not see a plow until tomorrow morning.
Lynchburg public works officials say plows have been on the streets all day to get them cleared.
But there are still spots that are covered. The director of Public Works says they're trying to get to all residential roads by Monday night looking around there's still a fair amount of digging out left to do.
For some today... driving down the street may have felt like off-roading.
Jake Hendrix, Lynchburg - "The neighborhood roads are still pretty rough."
Ronald Goode - "These secondary roads are pretty bad--not an awful lot of people getting out."
With the plows concentrated on the main roads, residential roads were put on hold.
Kathy Busch - "I'm sure they have a limited number of plows and they'll do what they can."
Public works had crews working non-stop, trying to get to roads before temperatures take a dive.
David Owen, Director of Public Works "We're trying to get to as many as we can today because we know freezing conditions tonight, we want to get them open as soon as possible."
Kathy Busch - "The cars are packing it down--you can see there. It's been packed down real hard where the tires have gone over it and it's going to freeze."
Goode - "It's going to be icy by this evening. It should be packed with ice if they don't come through and scrape it and at least get some of it off."
But tackling that layer of snow isn't easy when you're dealing with narrow streets and cars parked along the way.
Owen - "Our goal is to get a lane open going in and a lane open going out if possible."
And this time, public works is getting some help from Mother Nature, melting away some of her handiwork.
Tom Smith, Lynchburg - "We'll get through it without much trouble, because you see how much melting is going on right now."
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