Wet at the levee: While snow blanketed nearby Kanawha Boulevard and the rest of the city on Tursday, the Kanawha River flooded Haddad Riverfront Park, putting the stage and much of the amphitheater underwater.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A day off from school. A ride on a sled. A white-knuckle drive to work. A cold day without power. Thursday’s snowstorm — which fell atop Wednesday’s flooding in West Virginia — was a lot of things to a lot of people, and not all of them good.
Public schools in all 55 counties were closed, and some businesses followed suit.
Thousands of people were without power in the state during the day Thursday, after Wednesday’s rain changed to snow overnight and continued into the afternoon, leaving the Mountain State with several inches of snow on top of a layer of slush and ice.
More than 40,000 Appalachian Power customers in West Virginia were without power. In the northern part of the state, more than 43,000 First Energy customers were without power.
Meteorologists with the National Weather Service said Huntington received about 11.8 inches of snow, while Charleston got 8 inches and Beckley 10 inches by early Thursday evening.
Clarksburg received 8 inches of snow by the evening, while Parkersburg got 9.5 inches…
