Snow falls in Piedmont and more expected.

In winter, finally, do not come in the Carolinas, so that the most snow the area of Charlotte, as it is more than a year.

The first storm of 2002, is awarded dozens of cars between them, sent snowplow in the night, crews and government agencies arrested in South Carolina.

Carolinas Snow is a glass of the storm, the south this week, the power to hit icing roads and Louisiana to Virginia. Ice and snow have killed three people in car accidents dropped in Mississippi and dozens of flights to Atlanta.

“We already have reports of 1 to 3 inches along the Interstate77 corridor,” said meteorologist Rick Neal on Wednesday, 8 hours.

But the most serious snowfall was expected after midnight.

And more snow is expected until today.

Forecasts say is a 80percent chance Thursday flurries serious in times _ “_” in Charlotte and surrounding cities. They are invited for 4 to 6 inches until the end of the day.

_ Abgelegenen States City areas, Hickory Gastonia _ and with a little less. Columbia: 6 cm; Raleigh more than 8 times until the end of Thursday.

It could melt begin as early as Friday, but if the sun and a maximum of 40 to 45 are likely to Charlotte.

But forecasts show clouds and rain, freezing may be back Sunday.

Until late Wednesday, many school districts not yet decided whether classes would be canceled, but the decision has been made for 6 hours, staff counsel for the parents to listen to the radio and television or verification of Web sites.

U.S. Airways asked to consider, Thursday flights by phone or on the Internet at USAirways.com.

January is usually the month verschneitesten, in Charlotte, with an average of 2.1 inches above the 31 days.

But in the last 52 years, it has snowed only once on January 2, 1988 _ and thus a single track, seen by national registries Climate Data Center in Asheville.

“The beginning of January, it is rarely a heavy snowfall event,” said Karin Gleason, meteorologist Central climate.

Charlotte’s last significant snowfall was on Nov 19, 2000, 2.5 inches fell on a Sunday morning.

The city was soon snow of the season, was filed on November 11, 1968, by 1.7 inches.

This week on the snow was caused by a low pressure system that developed in the Gulf of Mexico and pulled northward and kissed the coast of North Carolina, brushes barely mountains.

Flurries rain and snow fell in Charleston 8 hours in Colombia, where snow has started to ensure, at noon, the governor has 64000 employees Home State after lunch. It was just about the same time the South Carolina Division of Emergency Planning activated in part the progress of the Emergency Operations Center and began shortly before flurries falling in Charlotte.

South Carolina State staff has been said, not to return Thursday.

The storm temporarily derailed the lottery Express, a blue and green Sports Utility Vehicle full of lottery officials travel through South Carolina for the promotion of education SC beginning of the lottery, that voters in November 2000. Scratch-off in the sale of tickets Monday.

With the start of Wednesday evening, roads throughout the Piedmont was covered with ice or snow, snarling traffic throughout the region.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police responded to more than 150 wrecks between 4 and 6:30 pm More than 15 participating injuries.

Most outages were located south and west of Uptown, and many Slick Interstate 485 bridges.

Utility Management crews and emergency workers throughout the region Wednesday spent a lot of preparation.

At Charlotte, roads and urban areas in the mobilization of crews, in the late afternoon and focuses on interstates and major roads such as Independence Boulevard, NC16, NC49, NC51 and WT Harris Boulevard.

The state is about 100 trucks in the region of Mecklenburg, Charlotte 25 on the two salt spreaders and place plow dump in the general rule for the maintenance of the highway.

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