This is a script from our local 11pm news.
Last Update 03/20/01
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(FRANK:) WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA IS OVERWHELMED WITH SNOW TONIGHT... CAUSING MASSIVE CONGESTION ON MOUNTAIN HIGHWAYS. INTERSTATE-40 CONTINUES TO BACK-UP FOR MILES.. AS VEHICLES SPIN OUT OF CONTROL. (FRANK:) GOOD EVENING, I'M FRANK KRACHER. (TAMMY:) AND I'M TAMMY WATFORD. ONE OF THE WORST HIT AREAS TONIGHT IS HAYWOOD COUNTY. NEWS-13'S RUSS BOWEN'S JUST RETURNED FROM THE SCENE AND BEGINS OUR "LIVE" TEAM COVERAGE OF THIS SPRING STORM. RUSS??? (RUSS) ONE THING WE KNOW FOR CERTAIN THIS EVENING IS THAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO STAY OFF THE ROADS. EVEN IF YOU GET ON THEM YOU AREN'T LIKELY TO GET VERY FAR. take pak (RUSS:) AD LIB (FRANK/TAMMY:) AD LIB
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(TAMMY:) WE'LL HAVE MORE ON ROAD CONDITIONS IN JUST A MOMENT.. BUT FIRST LET'S GET AN UPDATE ON THE WEATHER FROM METEOROLOGIST MIKE BETTES. (FRANK:) MIKE.. THERE'S A CHANCE WE'LL GET EVEN MORE SNOW TONIGHT??? (MIKE:) AD LIB
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(FRANK:) OUR SLOWLY DEPARTING WINTER'S SHOWING NO MERCY ON THIS FIRST OFFICIAL NIGHT OF SPRING. (TAMMY:) NEWS-13'S AMY DAVIS JOINS US "LIVE" FROM JUST OFF INTERSTATE-26 IN BUNCOMBE COUNTY. AMY.. HOW ARE THE ROADS LOOKING OUT THERE TONIGHT? (AMY:) THEY ARE LOOKING VERY SLUSHY... AND WHERE YOU SEE TRAFFIC... IN MOST PLACES... IT'S CRAWLING. ((**PKG**)) INTERSTATE 40... CLOGGED WITH TRACTOR-TRAILERS FOR MILES... IN THE WEST-BOUND LANE FROM HAYWOOD COUNTY INTO BUNCOMBE... DRIVERS ARE STRANDED. ((NATS)) AND IT'S HAVING A RIPPLE EFFECT... AS THESE SEMIS TRYING TO MERGE ONTO 40 FROM INTERSTATE 26 ARE ALSO WAITING HOURS ... WITH NOWHERE TO TURN AROUND. 16:35 "Well, I been sitting in the truck since about 6 o'clock on 26 here. I came on down at exit 9, and this is where I've been since about 6 o'clock, 6:30 anyway." AS THE WAITING GAME DRAGS ON... GAS TANKS ARE ALSO RUNNING ON EMPTY. IN NORTH ASHEVILLE ... FROSTED FLAKES COVER CHARLOTTE STREET. AND ON INTERSTATE 240... DRIVERS FIND AN EASY PATH ON A SLICK, BUT UNCONG
ESTED ROADWAY. (AMY:) THE NORTH CAROLINA HIGHWAY PATROL SAYS THEY HAVE WORKED ABOUT 340 CAR ACCIDENTS ACROSS WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA TONIGHT. AND THEY ARE ASKING EVERYONE TO PLEASE STAY OFF THE ROADS... ESPECIALLY THE INTERSTATES UNTIL THIS SNOW CLEARS AWAY. (FRANK/TAMMY:) AD LIB
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(FRANK) MOUNTAIN POWER CREWS CONTINUE BATTLING THE WIND AND SNOW THIS EVENING. (TAMMY) C-P-L WORKERS HAVE ALREADY RESTORED ELECTRICITY TO MORE THAN 58-HUNDRED CUSTOMERS AND THEY'RE STILL ON THE JOB. THIS DOWNED TREE GOT TANGLED IN POWER LINES IN THE BILTMORE AREA.. CREWS WERE CALLED IN TO REMOVE IT AND MAKE SURE THE AREA DIDN'T LOOSE ELECTRCITY. IT'S A JOB THAT'S BEEN PERFORMED OVER AND OVER WITHIN THE LAST 16 HOURS. (NANCY) "the problem is the wind and snow once one power problem is restored a new one is created somewhere..so we're constatnly restoring power..attacking new outages all day long." (TAMMY) ADDITIONAL POWER CREWS ARE ARRIVING THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT AND THERE'S NO DOUBT THEY'LL BE NEEDED. CP&L STILL HAS MORE THAN 16-THOUSAND 500 CUSTOMERS WITHOUT ELECTRICITY... MOST OF THOSE ARE IN THE ASHEVILLE AREA. AND..DUKE POWER SAYS IT HAS NEARLY 5-THOUSAND CUSTOMERS STILL WITHOUT SERVICE.
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(FRANK:) TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY DIDN'T ESCAPE THE HEAVY LAYER OF SNOW. SO HEAVY, IN FACT, THAT IT KNOCKED THIS STOREFRONT AWNING TO THE GROUND. SNOW PILED UP A FOOT HIGH IN SPOTS... BUT IT DIDN'T STOP SOME PEOPLE FROM VENTURING OUTSIDE BY CAR AND EVEN ON FOOT. WORKERS CLEARED THEIR WAY BY SCRAPING ROADS AND PARKING LOTS. 42:00 "My dad came up here to scrape and we've been up here all day because it's non-stop all day... the snow. So we've been out here all day working trying to clear off the parking lot." (FRANK:) MOST OF THE BUSINESSES IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY DIDN'T OPEN AT ALL TODAY. MANY THAT DID.. WOUND-UP CLOSING EARLY.
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Tim
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