20 mile per hour winds are possible, but the drifts are not predicted to cause any significant damage or danger, Jackson said. There is no snow forecast to hit the area today. (Doug) Copenhaver, actually drove to Washington County to pick the doctor up and get him to Berkeley Medical Center.” “There was a physician who had to perform emergency surgery, so we worked with the Maryland authorities. “We also coordinated some pretty neat transports,” Gochenour said. Saturday evening after trying to clear them all day. Some of the biggest efforts Saturday - during the worst parts of the storm - involved getting primary roadways clear. The department of highways said two lanes of Interstate 81, one northbound and one southbound, were finally opened around 5 p.m. “This will be the storm that people remember for a while.” National Weather Service for Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. “Getting three feet of snow is remarkable,” said Bryan Jackson, meteorologist with U.S. Into Saturday evening, there were reports of over 30 inches, said Brandon Vallee, public information officer for Jefferson County Homeland Security and Emergency Management. There were reports of anywhere from 25 to 40 inches of snow in Berkeley County. In Jefferson County, the snow record prior to this storm was 27.5 inches. “We would like to thank the public for heeding the warnings as far as staying off the roadways,” Gochenour said. “When they do get a road open, they are closed up within an hour because of the snow and wind drifting the snow.”Īlthough there have been numerous accidents due to road conditions, cars have been doing a good job of staying off the road, according to Gochenour. “To my knowledge, they haven’t even been able to reach secondary roads,” Gochenour said. Earl Ray Tomblin issued a state of emergency Friday evening, state workers started clearing primary roadways. “Everybody is trying to help one another fire departments are helping emergency medical services, and law enforcement officers are working with the department of highways everybody’s on board.”Īfter West Virginia Gov. “The county emergency services have been extremely busy and working hard to service the public,” said Eddie Gochenour, director of Berkeley County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. In Martinsburg, cited by some weather reports as the bull’s eye of the storm that struck much of the eastern United States, The Journal’s Emily Daniels reported that the highly publicized and anticipated winter storm that hit the Eastern Panhandle Friday afternoon surpassed original forecasts and left many areas with more than 40 inches of snow by Sunday.
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