Heres a look from wofford. Snow on the ground in spartanburg. Freezing. Were continuing to see cold eastnortheast. Heres the view from our anderson skycam. Weve got rain right now, 35 degrees. Too warm for that wintry precipitation there. Getting some early snow totals in here. Weve got some pretty hefty totals, especially in the mountains. Asheville airport, three inches. I can tell you, as we look at live super doppler 4 h. D. , as we looooat whats going on, we have snow n mountains. Some ice showing up across the upstate from the northern part of the upstate, from i85 northbound. Here is i85. You need to Pay Attention to that, because anywhere north of there seeing the worst of the storm. We a bubble of uncertainty from greenwood to anderson. I dont want to you let your guard down there, because this rain freezing line is going to waffle back and forth. This low level jet here sending in a ton of moisture from the south, at the same time, cold air is diving in. They meet right over
Four other people, two children, woman and man, were in the unit when the fire started apparently on a couch. Attempted to pull the couch in the front door. He sustained burns to 40 percent of his body. He blocked with the burning couch. Realized it was not a viable. To address to him any longer. Break the window in a back bedroom. And actually got the kids out. He and passersby, out the back window. What about the woman, how did she get out . She was in the room when the couch caught fire and exited the building. As you could see, theres obviously still working on boarding up the building. The fire did start in the first floor on this side basically right behind me over there. As bad as it is on this side, were told by the fair folks, the other side only suffered water damage. For a while. You dont know if it could actually be fixed or not man who was burned is hospitalized. Police hasnt released his name or condition. There were no other injuries. You may be seeing rain in your house
Moment. First, pamela wright. Pamela, you are talking about the wind picking up. The snow is coming down outside. Pamela it really is. You can definitely see the snow on the ground, and know that there is more coming down. This is the last big push to come through. Do wake the kids if they did not get to see it falling yet. Some of you getting the heaviest you have seen so far. The winds out of the north, watching those pickup. It has been called, but eight miles in greenville, and more to come. Look at this. Especially in Pickens County, fairy heavy snow. In lawrence county, some good widespread moderate snow. To the west, breaking up a snow coming down n alberts county. That is the last edge of it as this moves to the south and east. Pretty strong over Pickens County, what has he any, anderson county, wars, here comes. Some areas thinking of a quick inch picking up a quick inch. This is the last hurrah, as far as snow goes. More often on through the day, where we will see a very much
Shhere is the way lawrence a skycam looks. In greenville, mostly cloudy skies. A cool s at 38. Visibility doing ok across the area. Fog from anders to franklin. Be careful traveling those 31, hendersonville. 34, spartanburg. Anderson, 43. The wind is calm. They are out of the northeast at about five to six miles per hour. Not a whole lot of sunshine today. Mostly cloudy and cloudy skies. Asheville has a better chance of warming up. What you need to know for your forecast, cloudy and cool, but warmer this weekend. A calm weather pattern takes hold of our area. Allyson you can see construction. Looking to relocate some power poles. We will keepbeginning with commitment 2016 news. The republican president ial candidates face off one more time before the geoff the 8 candidates who are leading the polls have been invited to participate in the prime time debate tonight on fox news. That includes Ted Cruz Marco Rubio Ben Carson and jeb bush. Although frontrunner donald trump is invited, he sa
Number one concern and worry is Drinking Water and number two is wastewater. Everything else is a distant third. If theres a problem with the Drinking Water it has to be addressed immediately. Middle of the night, middle of the winter, it doesnt matter when. Every citizen and especially the most vulnerable depend on the safety of the water including families with infants, schools, our Nursing Homes and people with compromised immune systems. We cant have any contamination of the Drinking Water. Our sewer system also needs to function prop toerl avoid any probability of a sewage spill or sewage backup into peoples homes. I would say to you that this really does keep me up at night. Congressman tonko knows that right now our part of the state is buried in snow, just last week the frost penetrated the ground so deeply that we experienced two ruptures in our water planes that are 5 to 6 feet underground. This forced us to issue a boil water advisory where we have to tell families to boil w