CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Across West Virginia, slick roads had been the very first thing quite a lot of West Virginians encountered to start out the brand new yr.
An anticipated snowfall didn’t hit the Charleston space the and elements of Central West Virginia the way in which it was anticipated on New Year’s Eve. However, the National Weather Service stated a squall which handed by way of Thursday morning created harmful driving on many roadways. A wreck on I-77 northbound closed elements of the interstate. The wreck was blamed on black ice which shaped in the course of the morning.
The Kanawha County Sheriff’s Department issued a request for people to remain off the roads, particularly within the areas of Sissonville and Cross Lanes till the Division of Highways had time to deal with them.
It wasn’t simply within the Kanawha Valley. I -81 in Berkeley County was closed mid-morning to attributable to quite a few accidents. The intestate was closed from the 12 mile marker to the state line. One of these wrecks concerned a tractor trailer and an ambulance attempting to achieve the wreck was hit twice by sliding vehicles on the freeway.
Forecasters anticipate chilly temperatures by way of the weekend, however a warmup subsequent week throughout a lot of West Virginia.