Closings in Person County with an optional teacher work day. Vance county as well as Warren County schools. No word yet from wake county as to what may or may not happen here. If you are headed tout tonight the major interstates are clear. However as mike referenced refreezing could be an issue later and overnight. This is i40 and 15501 in durham county. That traffic very light today. Little slush remains in the median. Its a similar scene on i540 near ray of course and wake county traffic moving just fine. Smooth sailing on i85 at u. S. 15 near falls lake. No rush hour today or traffic hardly at all. Now we are going to talk about the Power Outages still a major issue four days after the winter storm hit our region. Mine men are being dispatched duke energy says most customers have power now but hopes the power will be back on tonight. Thats not so for some who depend on electricity for survival. Sloan is live to explain. Not having electricity we all know can be a major inconvenience
Tonight lester holt. Good evening. It just keeps coming. Winters parade of misery from snow bound new englanders at their wits end to snow and ice in the normally mild south. And now the next shoe, or should we say snowshoe to drop. The rush of arctic cold sweeping from the other side of the north pole through the great lakes. Tonight, places like chicago and milwaukee are already in the single digits. And the northeast and south wont be far behind with temperatures 25 to 35 degrees below average tomorrow. In so many places life as people know it is frozen in time. Paralyzed transportation its knocked out power and put a lot of people in some very real danger. Nbcs tom costello is on it for us tonight. Reporter from a frozen niagra falls and lake erie in the north to snow in the south, the eastern third of the country is locked in the deep freeze with even colder temps on the way. In eastport maine theyve had a record of 109 inches of snow in just 23 days. Its pretty much overwhelming.
It just keeps coming. Winters parade of misery from snow bound new englanders at their wits end to snow and ice in the normally mild south. And now the next shoe, or should we say snowshoe to drop. The rush of arctic cold sweeping from the other side of the north pole through the great lakes. Tonight, places like chicago and milwaukee are already in the single digits. And the northeast and south wont be far behind with temperatures 25 to 35 degrees below average tomorrow. In so many places life as people know it is frozen in time. Paralyzed transportation, its knocked out power and put a lot of people in some very real danger. Nbcs tom costello is on it for us tonight. Reporter from a frozen niagra falls and lake erie in the north to snow in the south, the eastern third of the country is locked in the deep freeze with even colder temps on the way. In eastport, maine theyve had a record of 109 inches of snow in just 23 days. Its pretty much overwhelming. And we have another storm coming
Any chance this storm is going to do much for the reservoirs . Not much. Reporter its been dry here for most of the evening hours so we are waiting for the rain to come south as paul referenced. A lot of people are calling this is opening act for the storms season and so far it hasnt been that impressive. Water districts in the bay area say we need 8 of rain to cause runoff and runoff especially in the north bay is critical. They get the majority if not all of their water from rainfall and runoff not from snowpack and snow melt. The snow melt in ukiah was at a 100 year low so the storm doesnt change that right now. It reminds us to turn off our garden hose or sprinklers and think about conservation. Ying well get much out of this storm i dont think well get much of the storm out of this system to make much of a difference. The amount of rain falling now is going to soak into the ground. We get 70 of our water from rain for the seven reservoirs in the county. Reporter reservoirs are not
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