(Roanoke, Va.) – While the winter storm brought only a light dusting of snow and ice on the Southside, it was a different story in Southwest and Northern Virginia.

Virginia State Police responded to nearly 800 wrecks and stuck cars Wednesday.

From midnight to 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, state police responded to 477 crashes and 318disabled vehicles.

Troopers reported only a handful of weather-related accidents on the Southside, but there were 79 crashes in the Appomattox area, 26 in the Wytheville region and 56 in the Salem district.

The winter storm also disrupted air travel in the mid-Atlantic region and beyond. FlightAware.com shows Reagan National Airport leading the country in cancelations, with 37 percent of departures and 33 percent of arrivals canceled. Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport is seeing about 32 percent of departures and 31 percent of arrivals canceled. Dulles International Airport is seeing about 26 percent of departures and 23 percent of arrivals canceled.

 

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