Snow and lingering cold disrupts travel across East Coast of US

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AccuWeather's Ali Reid reports from Virginia Beach, Virginia, in the morning of Feb. 20, where the shores have been blanketed under snow with bitter cold lingering. Roads were slick with snow and ice.

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00:00The snow and ice continues to impact the northeast, bringing dangerous

00:03travel conditions. Not much ice right now, it's mostly snow.

00:07Acura, there's Allie Reed is live in Virginia Beach this morning with the latest.

00:13Allie, what can you tell us?

00:18Guys, it is bitter cold here in Virginia Beach. That's not something you say often,

00:23and it's certainly not something that you say in terms of the amount of snowfall that we saw here,

00:28right? Yesterday, I was saying, I think we're going to see anywhere from potentially 9 to 12

00:32inches of snow. By the way, a lot of areas around here and around the Hampton Roads region

00:38saw exactly that. Here in Virginia Beach, most areas are reporting about 9.5 inches of snowfall.

00:46Residents here say, wow, this isn't something that we've seen in 10 plus years, potentially.

00:52Look at this. I mean, this gives you a great idea just how much snow came down here,

00:56untouched snow, all along here, leading up to the boardwalk and onto the beach here in

01:00Virginia Beach. And I wanted to show you this too. Really cool. This is a snow drift here.

01:05It shows you just how deep it can get. And if you could show my feet, look at that.

01:09This certainly gives you a good perspective of how much snow really came down here last night.

01:14And it came down very, very fast. But let's look at the sunrise this morning,

01:20coming up over Virginia Beach. It is absolutely gorgeous. Waves a little calmer than what they

01:25were looking like yesterday. I don't know. They were looking a little scary to me yesterday as

01:29the snow was coming in. Wind, I'm sure, was helping that too. It was a very windy day yesterday.

01:36Bitter cold here this morning. I want to show you what it looked like in the last hour, if we can.

01:41Let's take to this video. This was driving through Norfolk into Virginia Beach earlier this morning.

01:46My photographer, Andy, was able to get some dash cam video to show you what the roads were looking

01:51like this morning. And I will say, I'll start off by saying, we are pleasantly surprised.

01:56Okay, look at these roads. Virginia's standards, you guys know, they do not get snowfall like they

02:02do in other parts of the country. So we were wondering overnight, okay, what could this

02:06potentially look like come this morning? As you can see, not terrible, given how much snowfall

02:12we saw yesterday. I'm taking that as a positive. Okay, let's take to some more video, if we can.

02:17This was from yesterday. And this is why I was concerned about what it was going to look like

02:23this morning, given that there was accidents, crashes, people stalled out all over the roadways,

02:29major roadways, all day last night. And really, as it continued to pick up on that, it was rough.

02:36You know, at times they were having to shut down major roads, tunnels, bridges at points because

02:43they were completely taking over westbound lanes, eastbound lanes, and it was a total mess last

02:48night. Some numbers that I was able to get this morning, I'm told there was potentially right

02:55around 180 crashes that happened throughout the day yesterday, nine people injured. That's a

03:02significant amount for what we saw in this area. I'm grateful that it wasn't anything more than

03:08that. But we saw that there was a couple of rescues that had happened yesterday too, given

03:12that there was a car in Suffolk, which is where we started our reporting yesterday, had ended up

03:17in the water right off of a highway as well. So it was a busy day yesterday, much calmer today.

03:23If we can, let's bring you back live. Again, gorgeous here on Virginia Beach. It's cold,

03:28there's no doubt about it. But I mean, geez, look at that. What do they say? Like, just the beauty

03:34after the storm, right? The sun just coming up over the water. Another beautiful day here in

03:39Virginia Beach. Oh, Andy, can you show that dog? Are you zooming in on that dog? Yeah,

03:45I think we'd all like to be that dog this morning. Just a happy dog enjoying the snow.

03:52Just want to take it in for a second. Oh, what a good day to be in Virginia Beach.

03:57And I think the overall consensus here is, yeah, it's a lot of snow. I think a lot of people are

04:03happy to see the snow here because it doesn't happen very often, guys. And they're just grateful

04:08to see this amount of snow because, Bernie, Ari, as we know, it does not happen very often here.

04:14No, it does not. You know, we have another example of not footprints in the sand at the

04:19beach, but footprints in the snow. That doesn't happen much either.

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