“With this amount of ice, it is also extremely heavy, and has the potential to bring down entire trees, just like this one,” said Chris Ramsey, Christiansburg chief of police. “We really haven’t seen the magnitude of an event like this since the derecho in 2011.”

The snowstorm left roads, walkways and driveways covered throughout Montgomery County on Wednesday. With so much snow and ice on the ground, crews wasted little time starting to clear things. “We have approximately 13 routes,

After a winter storm left blankets of snow across the DMV, crews took to the roads and sidewalks in Montgomery County on Wednesday to treat the icy conditions.