A winter storm that moved through Western North Carolina on Monday left downed trees and power lines and closed roads in its wake.
On Monday morning, drivers on Brevard Road had to turn around when they discovered the road was closed from Clayton Road to Parkway Crescent, where a large section of power lines that had been knocked to the ground by a tree that had fallen.
Another large tree blocked the main entrance of A.C. Reynolds High School.
"We’ve seen a lot of downed trees, tree limbs, and that’s brought down pole and wires and created a messy situation across the state,” Duke Energy spokesperson Jeff Brooks said.
Brooks said most of the power had been restored in Buncombe County, however, there were still many without power in Henderson County.
By midafternoon, the Duke Energy power outage website showed about 4,000 power outages remained across Western North Carolina.
Brooks encouraged people to give power crews plenty of space to do their jobs. He also urged anyone who encounters a downed powerline to avoid it and assume it’s active.
STORY & PHOTO COURTESY OF ABC 13 WLOSWinter storm leaves downed power lines, trees across WNC | WLOS
