As I walked towards my Jeep Wrangler Thursday morning I noticed the “12″ and “09.” “Oh hell,” I muttered. My inspection sticker expired at the end of the day. I called Joey Kaylor at Protocol Automotive. After giving me an expected ration of grief for waiting until the last day for an inspection he said [...]

Compared to what we’ve received in the last two “winter events” (as the National Weather Service calls them), the “wintry mix” that fell overnight was a little snow and a smidgen of ice and not much else. Some areas got more ice than snow and some just got rain. Roanoke and the New River Valley [...]

The National Weather Service says a “wintry mix” will hit here in the wee hours of Thursday morning and that could includes a mix of freezing rain, sleet and snow. The forecast led owners of The Floyd County Store to pull the plug on a planned New Year’s Eve dinner and dance and other venues [...]

Bad weather brings out the best and worst of people. We saw the best in those who took the time to help neighbors stuck in snow or without power. On Christmas Even, I stopped to help two young men in a pickup who slid off the road after hitting a deer on U.S. 221. While [...]

The snow may be melting (slowly) but most weather experts, along with the solid black woolly worms, say the worst is yet to come. Storms now sweeping across the Midwest will bring colder weather and more snow, freezing rain and ice to our area in the coming days, weeks and months. What does this mean [...]