I know they are doing the best that they can, and they have to wait for the sun to, you know, come out to. Reporter the sun something that the public works say is essential for residential streets. All main and secondary roads are clear. Public works say the residentials are the challenge. We continue to work on them. What we have been doing is plowwhat we have been doing is plowing and slagging them heavily to get melting on the roads, but with the temperatures going so low, the snow has frozen to the pavement and our plows just will not put enough pressure on it to get it up. Reporter until the sun melts the patched snow and melting mixture does it work, some people are plain stuck, especially if they dont have fourwheel drive. Just pick up their pace a little bit. I know they are working hard. Pick up the pace little bit and let the kids go back to school. Reporter i asked them why pretreated like the main ones, salt costs 117 per ton and the city does not have the resourcecity does
But we are definitely working to get the side roads done so they can get back in school. Reporter and, remember, although the sun was out today and temperatures are not dipping as low tonight, there is still a possibility of black ice on the roads, and these wet roads refreezing. That is just not for residential. That could be for any road. Be aware. Drive safely. Look out for icing dangers and keep off the roads if you can. Live in lynchburg, katie brooke, abc 13 news. Mark katie, thanks. Schools out in schools out but not the only places shut down because the weekend storms. Nonprofits like gods storehouse that feeds thousands of people have not been able to reopen its doors. Right now Valerie Bragg is live in danville with how they are staying on track despite the snow. Valerie . Reporter mark, the director of gods storehouse tell me they had about 20 people try to come in today, but they had to day. The employee there went to check out the parking lot this morning and said it was n
Huge additional problems as temps are above freezing. In lynchburg right now, light to moderate rain moving in. The rain there near the timberlake area toward evanton and russburg, you will be getting rain moving in as well as appomattox. Showers in amherst. Occasional showers. We will see a little bit more rain develop back behind this. Occasional showers for your evening, but it is not goodbye toing a washout. Temp not going to be a washout. Temps above freezing to the upper 30s by 11 00. A little later we will let you know when we will have a big warmup and more showers returning. Imagine being stuck in your car in the snow for the entire weekend. That happened to one woman in maryland. The Maryland National guard rescued that woman last night who was trapped in her snowwho was trapped in her snowcovered car since friday. Their humvee was able to go down the unplowed road to get to her after someone called for help. It was located on on a side street that hadnt been plowed. So the h
We are tracking any developments tonight in the case of a missing teenager from blacksburg. It is now been two days since 13yearold Nicole Nicole love ll went missing floridalove ll went miss from her parent and time is of essence. When she was 10 months old she had a liver transplant and needs twice daily antirejection medicine. She missed three dozes. They set up a Master Control Center near a park near lovells apartment. They throughout help from local fbi. It can be any what they may feel could be you something of no consequence could help news an investigation. We ask anyone with any type of with us. We are in day two of a multipronged investigation. One of the worst things our community can deal with. Noreen again, if you do have information, you are asked to contact the blacksburg implement. Are searching for whoever has been breaking into homes and stealing from them. They say there have been nine burglaryburglaries in the dearton neighborhood since january 3. They are all, mos
Gunman Cameron Dooley died of a gunshot wound to his chest. Dooleys death was ruled a homicide suicide and the other were suicide. He killed his parents, siblings and another relative. A local reality star has been convicted of possessing a sawedoff shotgun. Steven tickle from moon shinersteven tickle from moon shiners was convicted in court help in arrested tickle during a routine traffic stop on 29 last july. Tickle will be sentenced in march. That wind kept is very cool today even though we saw temperatures in the 40s and sunshine this afternoon, it probably felt a lot colder to you due to that expected wind. Right now we are looking live over liberty and lynchburg, and you can see that snow is continuing to melt away. We will see some refreezing tonight, because we are going to have a freeze by 11 p. M. , most of us will be in the upper 20s, and temperatures will be off to a cold start for your 20s. Coming up, we will update you on a warmup, as well as the next time that you will s