Six members of the Haywood County Search and Rescue had to leave their 4WD truck and put on snowshoes to find a stranded hiker who decided to go camping during a winter storm.
Group photo: From left to right: Rescuers Nancy East, Kyle James, Graham Ebaugh, David Blackburn, Eric Sollie, not pictured, David Walker.A man who decided to go camping in the western North Carolina mountains despite a pending winter storm later had to be rescued, with emergency crews being forced to ditch their vehicle and strap on snowshoes in order to reach him.
They described the road conditions as "treacherous with less than 100 feet of visibility and a wintry mix of sleet and snow falling." Winter Storm Izzy dumped as much as 10 inches of snow in some areas of western North Carolina as the system moved across the southeastern U.S., said Brian Hurley, a meteorologist with the Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.A winter storm warning was in place for areas in northwest Georgia on Sunday, January 16, as the National Weather Service warned of snow accumulations, strong wind and black ice in some parts.
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