back to normal after the winter storm but snow and ice are still coating those local roads. >> darcel: crews are now focused on clearing secondary roads. and for many, that cannot happen soon enough. >> tammy: ashlea, you're in the royal pines community. >> ashlea: i am in the royal pines community. a lot of residents we spoke to this morning weren't happy out here. now we can pan out, show you where i am. this road was just hit with a plow and some salt maybe 30 minutes, 45 minutes ago. before it was thick slush. am like a slip n' slide if you vehicle. we spoke with one man and said he tried to work today because he couldn't get his car out. right now at any point in time the dot is saying they have

the clean-up effort. these guys are working all day, long hour shifts to get the roads cleared out. >> if i could give the folks out there some advice to be safe and if you don't have to be out, don't. there's always that potential for re-freezing when those temperatures dip below freezing at night. >> ashlea: temperatures are set to drop below freezing tonight again. the sun melted a lot of snow. coming up at 6 o'clock tonight, we talked to residents not so happen with snow removal so far, about some of the frustrations they've been dealing with. i'm ashlea surles, news 13. >> darcel: with conditions of the roads up in the air, both buncombe and henderson county

we are running a full list of closings on the bottom of your screen. in the upstate for the most part, the warmer weather has melted snow. but those secondary roads are covered in wintery mix, especially in shaded areas. that's judge school districts there canceled classes today. >> we're going to check again at around 5 o'clock this afternoon. around. our team is about 25 people. they drive secondary roads, major roads, back roads. checking everything just to make sure that any route that a parent or student or a bus might take is clear. >> darcel: tonight on my40 at 6 6:30, find out if school officials plan to cancelling

>> reporter: i just checked with dispatchers and their main roads are passable. take a look at this picture. this is the back road from macon county. you can see the snow and even a little patch of black ice on that road. so if you are driving a secondary road this evening or even tomorrow morning, please use extra caution as you head out the door. we do have closures in haywood county. crusoe road is closed due to snow and ice. try to avoid that spot. there's no word on when it will reopen. if you're heading out towards patton avenue, get ready for some delays. traffic is flowing through new leicester highway and i-40. that's a look at your on time traffic report brought to you by debruhl's used car superstore. back over to you. >> tammy: for some workers, the lost wages are hard to recover from. hourly employees take a big hit

>> john: that's right. for those on a tight budget all this snow doesn't help. some are able to use vacation days. but for others, they don't have. the ripple effect is missed time at work. taking money away from folks like jordan meeks. >> yeah, it definitely takes a toll. >> john: because of the weather, the hourly employee at playdo's claft. like so many, he turns to eblen charities for relief in the after math of the storm. just when he thought things couldn't get worse, an injury saturday made the roofer's trip here even more urgent.

barely walk. >> i stepped off the sidewalk and tore my acl and bent my leg backwards. ice, it hadn't been plowed or anything. >> even one day can matter if the budgets are so tight, missing work is a tragedy for folks. >> john: for terry, living pay check to pay check sure seems like a luxury now that he's hurt. >> it will definitely slow me down. it's not good for anybody. >> john: whether you work on rooftops or in retail, the struggle is real. >> definitely taking a toll not being able to make the money. >> john: realizing business as usually couldn't come soon enough. >> y'all have a good one.

be a lot worse. experts estimated $1 billion in lost wages. john le, news 13. >> darcel: now turning to the impact of the weather storm coast. at least 30 people have died as a result of the conditions. millions of people are working to clean up their neighborhoods. still closed. and airports are struggling to get back to full service. more than 12,000 flights were canceled over the weekend. >> just bad. really, really bad. i've never seen it like this in a long time. >> darcel: they're offering to pay residents 13.50 an hour to shovel. >> tammy: mount mitchell is making headlines today in connection with the winter storm. >> darcel: how much fell at mount mitchell, jason?

this? i'm going to show you in just a second. more than the blizzard of 1993. right now they're melting snow. 41 degrees atop mount mitchell on the leicester carpet sales news13 sky cam network. since thursday, adding up friday, adding up saturday, adding up sunday, that's 66 inches of snow. no joke. that is legitimate snow total. 31 inches. the most that fell before that time was 50 inches. they already broke that record by a long shot. 45 in asheville. we've melted a lot of snow today. 52 in greer. it was 55 at the top of the hour in clemson. we have clouds on the increase. although we're going to get a few breaks at times. high cloud cover will certainly move in. and put the kabash on some of the cooling.

clouds on the increase here. clouds on the increase over the upstate as well. holding in the upper 30s through about 11 o'clock. when i see you again in a few minutes, we'll talk about warmer weather. but we still have to go through some wintery weather. stick around for the details. >> tammy: a weather satellite captured these details over the weekend. while they were lit from below by city lights along the east coast. >> darcel: cool. areas of asia are also dealing with winter weather. an island in japan actually had yesterday. as you can see, a lot of snow came down. many other cities throughout japan are experiencing historic snowfall $s forcing dozens of

>> tammy: coming up, what has some residents worried in ask 13. >> darcel: plus heading to the

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our frank fraboni is with us. >> tammy: frank, is there a problem? >> frank: tammy, it seems there is and local residents have noticed it. recycling waste. leaving some to wonder could it be a health hazard. cardboard, plastic, aluminum center. >> thankfully the asheville area economy is booming. >> frank: they've been overrun by christmas and holiday waste. >> the surge of materials during the christmas holiday was beyond our capacity to process. >> frank: the plant separates and sorts about 12 to 14 tons per hour. but outside a backup of an estimates 300 to 400 tons. >> obviously we're going to have to come up with a new plan the next christmas season to make

additional volume that's coming in. >> frank: but the massive amount of waste. >> it is a concern for us. >> frank: also presents a problem for kirby which isn't permitted to store outdoors. >> the cold weather is helping some, because you know the colder it is, the less there's odor, the less there's pest and vermin vermin. >> frank: kirby is now shipping a third of its volume it can't process to other recyclers to help clean it up. >> moving materials to other locations where shipping to some other locations in the state and out of state to help try to catch up. >> frank: and we've learned that they have caught up quite significantly.

some additional working hours. could there be a deeper problem with recycling and the recycling market? we investigate tomorrow night at 6:00 on a news 13 reality check. darcel. >> darcel: people across the carolinas are celebrating the panthers' victory. some in the studio are still dancing. some surrounded bank of america stadium to celebrate before the game even ended. they will take on the denver broncos. news 13 will be there with the team. >> tammy: i hate to tell jason but he's going to be let down. i'm sorry, man. >> jason: hey, i like both teams. >> tammy: it's a win-win, right? >> jason: a win-win. my wife? no. all broncos. 51 degrees for the temperature today. that was nice, wasn't it?

tomorrow. watch out. another night with black ice. no rain but snow today. the big melt continues. we do have wintery chances.

and even spring-like now your news 13 skywatch

>> jason: well no forecast is ever perfect. we got close but man, was this storm a very complicated one that came over the weekend. look at the snowfall totals over the region. this is i-40. this is i-26. right here is mount mitchell. 57 inches. again, that's just three days total. add about 4 and a half inches, they had 66 inches total when it comes to the storm event. then you go south of there, only 4.8 inches. actually that's a 15 inch storm total just north and east of asheville. balsams. boy, there was a foot plus in many cases there. you get down here, southern jackson county, 14. around cashiers. there. only 1.3 inches east of franklin. a half an inch north of franklin and macon county.

all over the place? there you go. that's how hard it was to forecast this. 12 inches over the nantahala mountains right over the western part of macon county. you go east and it was a foot flush in mcdowell county. a good foot plus also in the yancey and mitchell county, madison county. everything ranges from about as low as six inches in the central part of the french broad river valley. it was everywhere, folks. very difficult. heaviest snow events, this doesn't even rank in the top sixth. it's eighth all time. the blizzard still stands at 18.2 inches, number one. now we turn our attention to the melt. leicester carpet sales news13 sky cam network 46 degrees in black mountain. but watch all this. this is all going to be freeze up later on tonight. shadows already happening now. the sun is setting from 45 degrees in asheville.

degrees with a south-southwest wind at 10. mild weather again early tomorrow and then watch this front come through. here's the dividing line to produce know. warm enough wind to produce rain. a little bit of a wintery mix. by far this is not a major event. but there could be some light icing. light snowfall. and then we'll watch the system go off the coast and bring more rain than anything else. here it is. tonight, clouding up. tomorrow morning, showers well west of us. in the afternoon, a rain comes through. this is morning. on wednesday, look at the snows. on the back edge of that as it comes through the mountains. temperatures in the 20s and 30s tonight. again, below freezing in most mountain valleys especially asheville and northeast. we've got temperatures in the 40s tomorrow. 50s will be found again farther east and south.

back in to that wintery mix. below freezing wednesday and thursday night. and then back to 50s and even well nearly 60 degrees for the evening. tuesday and wednesday pretty slim in terms of any major impacts at all. >> at least the rain can help clean some things, too. >> darcel: maybe my car. >> tammy: seeking help for a painful condition most women are embarrassed about. how doctors helped a local woman in need of treatment. >> darcel: the lingering impact of the winter storm coming up at 5:30. how it's affecting garbage

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>> darcel: it's an uncomfortable sometimes painful condition that primarily affects women, pelvic organ prolapse. a third of women will develop some form of it but many will not get treatment. >> tammy: jay siltzer explains what it is and why one local woman got help. >> reporter: eventually the pain outweighed her pride. and she sought help from obgym physician. >> you can have voiding

problems with the kidneys. >> irritable bowel syndrome, pain, pressure. there was a feeling that i being pulled out . >> normal pelvic anatomy looks like this. >> reporter: mary knew there was hope. >> i had a procedure done in the hospital. spent one night there. the procedure, once you go to sleep, you don't know what's going on. you can use the patient's own tissue if it's strong enough to put things back together and support the area. >> after a couple, a week i felt terrific. i felt like i had my life back again. >> reporter: that's because getting everything back in place physically also helped emotionally. >> tammy: doctors say risk factors include childbirth,

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