Winter wallops West Virginia

West Virginia is taking a pounding from a snowstorm that originally was supposed to stretch from the coalfield counties to the eastern panhandle. But the storm tracked further west than forecasted, covering most of the state with several inches of snow.

Tucker County received 14 inches of snow overnight and it just kept falling throughout the day.

“Everything is white! Absolutely everything is white,” described Bill Smith, with the Tucker County Convention and Visitor’s Bureau. “There’s 14 to 16 inches on the ground and drifts of 4 to 5 feet. It’s covered with snow!”

The snow is keeping a lot of people at home. However, Smith is hoping that the road conditions improve by Friday, the start of a long President’s Day weekend on the slopes.

According to the National Weather Service out of Charleston, we’ll see snow showers off and on through the weekend.