Its a road thats almost done but not quite. Connecting highways through Southwestern Community college. The work was being done by deveer construction. But it stopped work this month on a nearly 16 million project. The dots Ralph Kennedy can only speculate on the reasons. Failure to perform properly, i guess. Rex deveer had to be bonded. The Bonding Company will now finish the project. Rex the road is a little more than half a mile. Scc says some of the initial construction caused cracks in one of its buildings. The colleges president requests the responsible party to make necessary repairs. Kennedy says only a small section of the road needs finishing and that Liberty Mutual has chosen wnc paving to handle part of it. Theyve got a contractor safety related items or any erosion control. Rex the paving and striping will have to wait for warmer weather. Were protected by the bond. Rex the bonding process protects the state from losing money. I know our division struggled in december and
Bursts of moderate snow coming down about an hour ago. We drop three degrees. This temperature will easily get down to freezing. Already close to freezing in the higher elevations. Winter advisories from 7 oclock until tuesday. Buncombe, avery, macon, clay, and cherokee county. All these counties are under wintnt storm warnings. Periods of some snow. Light accumulations. Watch out for slick roads. Ill tell you more about the changes that lie ahead and how the snow adds up. Stick around. Larry we have a team of reporters tracking some snow thats already fallen and whats still to come. Darcel news 13s karen wynne is in haywood county, and Kimberly King in yancey. What are crews doing to gear up for more snow tonight . Karen darcel, theyre working long hours. Theyre going to be out all night long to keep the roads safe. Little bit of snow to give one florida family a thrill. It was the first time the kids have ever seen snow. So they snowboarded on soco mountain even though it was not com
Continue. Icy roads especially closer to elevations. 21 at 11. Well have snow in our forecast, too. Not nearly as much, though. Ill show you how much to expect. We go down the road and how windy its going to get. Stick around. Tammy its providing a boost for local businesses. Darcel rex hodge is live. Rex, tell us about the pros and cons. Rex well you know the roads can still be tricky out here. But the dot doing a good job on the main roads. Like the Smoky Mountain expressway. Some businesses up here and towns like maggie valley, they revenue. Another snow day for kids to enjoy. Snow on the slopes of cataloochee means attracting skiers and snow boarders. I saw it was snowing up here and said lets go take a day trip. Going to make a profit by the end of the season . Well be all right. Anytime we get snow it energizes the guest. Its great to see the scenery out there. If cataloochee doesnt have them, we dont have them. We were absolutely devastated during the school break, during christ
Darcel another snow day for buncombe county schools leads to calendar. Tammy karen wynne joins us live. Karen, when were the changes announced . Karen confusing morning for some families. The first notification went out just before 6 00 a. M. Buncombe county schools were on a two hour delay. And the primary roads looked pretty good this morning. We decided that dr. Baldwin decided a two hour delay was going to be sufficient. Second notification. Widespread icy roads, black ice and things. As we saw those, we made the decision for safety reasons to close the school. I was out in barnardsville i cant believe they waited until the morning to let you know it was out. Karen problem areas were widespread. From the usual snowy areas in north buncombe to parts of the owow district. Once the sun came out, it didnt take long for the snow and ice to melt off many of those roads. But nikki bishop mother of two, said the schools made the right call. Updates in the School Calendar with the last day
Couple inches of snow and more accumulating ice. Freezing rain advisories will expire in the upstate around 6 oclock. Future cast. There you go, temperatures still below freezing here for several more hours. Everyone is warming up to get rain in most mountain locations. Bigger changes coming by the end of the week. Stick around. Darcel icy roads in Henderson County caused multiple wrecks and forced schools to close today. Tammy karen, its been a mess there today. Karen right. We saw multiple accidents and found out first hand how slick some of the roads are. From a morning accident with injuries. Its a bad situation all around. And it happened really fast. Karen to this wreck on interstate 26 that backed up for miles. One crash that ended up at this towing company. I think it took everybody by surprise. Even though was it forecasting we didnt expect the roads to be as slick is what it was. Karen we found one of the slickest roads is where this trash truck hit a tree. This road is hard