And the scene of a house fire with the dispatchers tell us firefighters told themstarted with live wires falling on that helmet. No one is hurt. This apparently started around 5 30 tonight, and speaking of the power lines, this was just in greenville county. Nearly 2000 in pickens county, nearly 500 in anderson county. Carol more than 1000 outages in greenville county, 520 in oconee, and in anderson county, power. Certainly has received the brunt of t snowfall today. Carol lets check in with myra myra this rant, a very popular place to be, because we have the outlet mall, multiple businesses, and even totoy, this take a look at the exit ramp. You can see what was happening earlier today. An orange semi was stuck. Other vehicles attempted to take the exit, not knowing what was d. Cars were able to drive around the trucks or safely back up onto the interstate. However, it did take a while for the orange some i to get enough traction and eventually make its way up the rest of the exit ram
Freeze instantly. Chris combine that with strong wind and this could d ve gusty wind. Thg in four hours and on either side, snow on the and a mix in front. John we cannot stress enough, the worst is yet to come. If you do not have to get out, stay home and we will keep you updated. Gabby thank you very much. Unfortunately, there are many Power Outages to report. We went to show you the numbers. Energy. In greenville county, 7718 outages reported. 919 in spartanburg county. Nigel in Pickens County, 900 22 outages reported as well. Blue ridge electric. Anderson and greenville with almost 1500 in greenville. In Pickens County, over 6600. If you do have an outage, there is the number to call. If you are part of blue ridge, 888blue ridge to reported outage. Gabby we will show you video taken earlier today from one of our executive producers at the statiothis is state park road in greenville county. This wreck happened a short time ago, a scary video. At this hour, we do not know if the driv
Theyre going to see all snow from this event, as much as two feet of snow. 1 00, that area slides further south. Wraparound moisture tomorrow night. Cold air behind the system, changing our freezing rain and sleet to snow showers across the area. We will be watching that closely. As far as snow in the upstate, 14 inches of snow. Right around the corridor, expect a couple of inches. The mountains, mainly snow. Mixed with some sleep. Also freezing rain. A real mess. This is just the start. Back to you. Michael right now we know this. Tens of thousands of students across our region will miss school tomorrow, including those in Greenville County. You can look for the up to date list, scrolling at the bottom of your screen. Carol buncombe county is on that list of cancellations as well. Its the Largest School district in Western North carolina. Coverage with wyff news 4s corey davis. Hes live and local in asheville with how families are getting ready. Corey . Corey the situation is changing
Miles an hour in hendersonville making it feel like 12. It feels like seven in asheville. As we go forward we will continue to see this icy kind of cold mess stick around a little bit longer. You can see low temperatures expected to be 19 asheville. 26 greenville bringing the wind chill in the asheville and henderson i will have to below zero. We will have more and how much your town saw in a few minutes. Patrick thank you, chris. Thousands remain without power across the upstate and Western North carolina. Take a look here and it shows more than 2,600 Duke Energy Customers are currently without power and majority of them in greenville cut. More than 1,400 are without power the blue ridge members most of them in pickens and currently 116 members with laurens electric. Duke power says greenville has South Carolina. Greenville is where we find Stephanie Trotter who joins us live. Whether are you finding . Stephanie more than 7,000 Duke Energy Employees a canvassing the carolinas trying t
Now its all about the refreeze. Thats a problem because were still going to be frozen for about another 12 hours. It is still very windy in the North Carolina mountains. 34mileanhour sustained winds in hendersonville right now. It feels like on your skin 9 out there. We do warm up tomorrow even in the mountains so melting will commence. Well tell you about monday morning a lot of kids wondering about school. That forecast coming up. Patrick thank you, chris. Its been more than 36 hours since this winter st tonight, there are still several hundred people still without power. Stephanie trotter has the story from Greenville County. Stephanie dozens of scenes that have come down on power and homes. Greenville county has the hardesthit areas and they range from the top of the counun to the bottom. Duke energy has doubled its manpower efforts by pulling in crews like this from florida. The linemen say some jobs are quick, others take all day. Broken poles take longer than pulling off wires.