“This storm dropped staggering amounts of snow, ice and rain across our state,” Cooper said Monday. “A year’s worth of snow fell in some places in little more than a day.”
The state opened 15 emergency shelters, most of them in the mountain counties where snow fell more than a foot deep in places.
Schools were closed in 76 of 100 North Carolina counties Monday, with 10 more systems operating on a delay. The following school systems said they would remain closed Tuesday: Chapel Hill-Carrboro, Wake, Durham, Chatham and Orange counties.
Cooper reported three storm-related deaths: a man killed in Matthews when a tree fell on his truck; a Haywood County woman who died while on hospice care during the storm, and a Yadkin County resident who died from a heart-related condition while on the way to a shelter.
A tractor-trailer crashed into the Neuse River near Kinston, damaging a bridge on U.S. 70, Assistant Department of Transportation Director Bobby Lewis said. Divers and searchers in boats were still looking for the driver, the Highway Patrol reported.
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