Joining us i am lindsay ward and i am tall at jefferies. Active area as parts are hit hard in one affected the most is here, we find coulter standing by and we saw the image and how bad is the damage left behind . Reporter it is really really bad, this is everything you would expect from a storm like this and you can see what is left of this mobile home, it is completely destroyed and you can see debris scattered everywhere. I spoke to a woman who was inside and she said one of the sons actually got a notification that a tornado was in the area on his cell phone and open the front door and they notice the storm was upon them. He opened the front door and said mama, tornado, tornado in the front yard. Reporter the company that her son works it has put her in her family up in a hotel for the night and they are looking forward to eating dinner with the family and relaxing. Life for wsls 10. Thank you, we are hearing from viewers in those areas, in evergreen, teresa lee says when the storm
Make sure that once power is restored. It stays on. But they say rural areas and secondary neighborhoods might take longer than others. Flooding isnt the only concern for drivers following the winter weather. Downed power lines are a concern in roanoke. City workers put up warning signs and barricades to keep drivers off of mason mill road after trees toppled over leaving live power lines down. 13th street and north avenue northeast have also been barricaded. Roanoke city workers say. Theyve contacted aep about the problem. But as of now. There is no timeline as to when the live wires will be cleared. In your wsls ten timesaver traffic report. Another area to watch out for is i81 in salem. Theres about a 2andahalf mile backup near mile marker 137. The south Left Shoulder and left lane are both closed. While safe and salted roads are months. They do come with unintended consequences. The salt used to keep streets safe them as well. Says its typical to see more due to the salt used to tr
Places but with the wind. It feel even colder. For that reason. We want to head over to storm team ten chief meteorologist. Jeff haniewich. Jeff. Is there any relief in sight . The flurries and snow showers have finally ended. For a brief time. Thursday was pretty chilly but at least we another clipper will impact the region on friday, bringing more snow showers, especially into the mountains. Tonight clouds thicken, cold with less wind. Lows in the midtoupper teens. Friday mostly cloudy with mountain snow showers. Highs in the middle 30s. While most of the snow showers will occur in the mountains on friday, we will see flurries, maybe even a few snow showers farther east. We are looking at a coating1 maybe above 2500 ft. , up to 2 in the nrv and highlands, with a possible dusting in spots farther east. This will start southwest virginia families face. Law enforcement and Mental Health professionals work to combat the issue in adults. Now. A new river Valley Public School is working to
Three people dead, three missing and dozens of others injured after a line of severe storms from louisiana to florida. 19 Million People were at risk during round one of the massive winter storm. In louisiana, or the 150 homes destroyed while in florida cement trucks, businesses and more homes destroyed. We want to show you drone video from pensacola where more than one dozen tornadoes tore across the region. 70 homes and 24 apartments were severely damaged. I was scared. Watching things fly around in your house. You did know what was going to happen vacuum southwest virginia, the storm system brought Severe Weather and flooding. This is video out of danville. One of the heaviest hit areas. We want to join with jeff. This has been a powerful and some indications that we may have had a tornado and appomattox. It certainly looks like a tornado to us. We dont go and survey the damage. We will do that tomorrow. What we saw certainly looks like a tornado touched down. We do have a few showe
State police say there are now 7 of the scanners statewide, one for every division. In Roanoke County, rob manch wsls 10. Hargrave military academy will be closed tomorrow due to a social media threat. Wsls 10s colter anstanett spoke to School Leaders and joins us now live from the chatham campus. Colter. The school says. This could be linked to isis . The school will only say that earlier this week. A threat was made to the school through a direct message on one of the schools social media sites. The school would not give any details about the threat or name the site, but did say that the threat could be linked to isis. Law enforcement will have an increased presence around the school tomorrow. Roanoke county police find no northside high school. According to a Roanoke County spokeswoman an anonymous phone call was received at the high school on wednesday afternoon. Concerns over the threat spread to social media. The School Resource officer investigated and didnt find a credible thre