WRAL employees get to enjoy the snow as it continues to fall in Dunn

WRAL meteorologist Aimee Wilmoth and cameraman Andrew Cumbee got to enjoy some of the snow that was falling in the Bunn area.
Posted 2/21/2020, 2:52:36 AM

IN THE ROADWAY.

>> THAT IS THE DANGEROUS PART

OF THE STORM LIKE THIS BUT THIS

IS THE FUN PART.

>> LOOK AT THIS.

>> IT LOOKS LIKE A BIG

STALAGMITE COMING OUT OF THE

GROUND.

>> COME ON.

THAT IS WHAT DETERMINED ME TO

STAY OUT HERE IN THE COLD TO

TRY TO BUILD SOMETHING.

MY FEAR IS MY CHILDREN WILL

WAKE UP AND WANT ME TO DO THE

SAME THING.

>> WE WILL HELP YOU BUILD THE

SNOWMAN.

>> COME ON.

I KNOW IT IS PATHETIC.

>> YOU HAVE BEEN DRIVING AROUND

AND IT CONTINUES TO SNOW.

YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THAT MANY

PEOPLE ON THE ROAD TONIGHT.

RIGHT, AMY?

>> I THOUGHT WE COULD STOP AND

TALK TO PEOPLE OCCASIONALLY BUT

THERE IS NOBODY TO TALK TO.

EVERYBODY IS AT HOME IN THE

WARMTH OF THEIR HOUSE WATCHING

US ON TV.

>> A SNEAK ATTACK.

>> I DID NOT KNOW HE WAS GOING

TO DO THAT.

>> AMY, I WAS THINKING YOU WERE

JUST THERE A WEEK OR SO AGO

WHEN THE SEVERE WEATHER CAME

THROUGH.

THE TORNADOES AND THIS PART HAS

SEEN ALL KIND OF WEATHER WITHIN

THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS.

>> YES.

WE ARE TRYING TO TALK ABOUT

SOMETHING SERIOUS.

WE ACTUALLY DROVE DOWN BECAUSE

WE WERE JUST HERE ABOUT A WEEK

AGO AND THERE WAS STILL TREES

DOWN.

THEY WERE NOT NOT ROAD BUT YOU

COULD STILL SEE SOME OF WHAT

HAPPENED AND IN FACT THE FIRE

DEPARTMENT HAVE THEIR STUFF

OVER THERE.

FIRST THEY GET SPRINGLIKE

SEVERE WEATHER AND NOW THEY GET

THE WINTER SNOW STORMS.

>> I AM CURIOUS BEHIND YOU.

I SEE POWER IS ON BUT AS YOU

ARE DRIVING AROUND DID YOU SEE

ANY AREAS THAT APPEAR TO BE

DARK?

>> NO WE DIDN'T.

ACTUALLY MY PHOTOJOURNALIST

MADE A PHONE CALL AND THEY

DON'T HAVE ANY POWDER URGES

POWER OUTAGES TO REPORT.

THEY STILL HAVE POWER HERE

WHICH IS GOOD NEWS.

I WILL SAY THAT SOME OF THE

SECONDARY ROADS ARE PRETTY

COVERED IN SNOW AND THE

TEMPERATURES ARE IN THE UPPER

20s.

PROBABLY PRETTY SLICK.

>> BE CAREFUL, ENJOY THE SNOW.

I KNOW YOU WILL BE LETTING US