Updated: 2:20 PM EDT Jun 4, 2021 A major traffic backup that started with a crash Friday morning in North Carolina caused headaches for drivers into South Carolina.The crash was reported just before 8 a.m. in the westbound lanes of I-26 near U.S. Highway 74 near Saluda in Polk County at mile marker 61, according to the North Carolina Department of Transportation website.The NCDOT tweeted that the crash involved a tractor-trailer, but no other information was released. At noon, the right lane of Highway 74 was still closed 5 miles west of Exit 6.The backup was reported to be at least five miles.WYFF News 4 viewers emailed the newsroom, saying they had been stuck in traffic for hours.The website indicated at 1 p.m. that all lanes were reopened, but that congestion still was still being reported in the area.
PEDEEÂ â Mid-valley foresters are still feeling the pain from the February ice storms. Those who had acres affected have been working tirelessly to minimize their losses and undo some of the damage.
For Nancy Ross Hathaway and her husband, Greg Peterson â who own about 200 acres near Pedee in Polk County â itâs led to months of hard labor and thousands of dollars to rehabilitate their affected acres.
âIt looked like a bomb got dropped off out here,â Hathaway said, describing how trees were flattened, or âpancaked,â and how the tops and limbs of many of them had been stripped, leading to a type of tree known as a âcandlestick.â