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A coastal winter storm delivered heavy snow across North Carolina in the United States on Feb 1, coating homes, roads and playgrounds in thick drifts as residents navigated rare winter conditions.

The extreme weather, which also hit many other states over the last week, has caused at least two deaths in the state.

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00:00I love you.
00:30Most I've seen in my 65 years for Wayne County, North Carolina, I've seen more overseas, but
00:53for Wayne County this is a pretty big event.
00:57In regards to preparing, we made sure we had enough food for the last three or four days,
01:01gas grill, have a generator, everything's set ready to go, but so far thankfully we've
01:08not had to use any of it.
01:10It really hasn't disrupted it that much.
01:12We are able to do what we want to do when we want to do it, and so we're able to kind
01:17of come and go.
01:18So it makes it a little bit easier for me.
01:20For some people I know it is disruptive, but we have an excellent first responder program
01:26here, so if anybody needs any help, they can certainly get it.
01:33Yeah, we were very prepared.
01:36We made sure we had plenty of extra things and plenty of food in case we get snowed in
01:41for a few days, and thankfully they weren't expecting any power outages, but we've got
01:46our gas logs if we need them, so yeah, we're very prepared.
01:49Yesterday, we had the kind of snowstorm that we don't get very often in North Carolina.
01:54We had 16 inches of snow in Lexington, 15 inches in Ocean Isle.
02:00All 100 counties experience snow, much of it in the east.
02:04So wherever you're watching this today, I hope you're warm and safe, and I hope that
02:07your kids and grandkids are outside playing.
02:11For your own safety, and for the safety of the people clearing the roads, please stay
02:15at home if you possibly can.
02:19This is no joke.
02:20This weekend we saw more than 1,000 collisions, including two fatalities, and a major traffic
02:26jam involving more than 100 vehicles on I-85.
02:30DOT has 2,500 people out working overtime to try to clear as much snow today as they can.
02:37But our fear is that with temperatures staying below freezing today and much of tomorrow,
02:42many roads will be bad in many places across the state for days to come.
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