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U.S. NEWS Tuesday 11 december 2018

Snowed-in South

Continued from Front to Durham from Chicago
several years ago and was
Scores of schools canceled surprised to see this much
class Monday, and many snow: “I didn’t expect this.”
businesses and govern- The North Carolina De-
ment offices — including partment of Transportation
Virginia’s executive-branch said a livestock truck car-
agencies in Richmond — rying pigs overturned on
were closed. Interstate 40 westbound
For those staying close to near the Tennessee line.
home, the storm provided The westbound lanes were
a chance to sled, drink hot closed temporarily Mon-
chocolate with friends or day so the pigs could be
simply take in a wintry land- corralled, but at least one
scape in places that don’t lane was reopened by
often see so much of the midafternoon.
white stuff. North Carolina Gov. Roy
In North Carolina’s Durham Cooper said Monday that
County, where a foot (.3 the worst of the storm had
meters) fell in places Sun- passed, but residents — par-
day, kids reveled in a day ticularly motorists — should
off from school as a sec- keep watch for dangerous
ond dusting of snow and conditions. Melting snow Pigs wander the shoulder of Interstate 40 near the state line with Tennessee in Haywood County,
North Carolina, after a crash on Monday Dec. 10, 2018. The crash caused delays while local
sleet fell Monday morning. and ice could result in slick farmers helped authorities corral the pigs.
Children threw snowballs road conditions Tuesday Associated Press
or built snowmen, and a morning as temperatures ficials declared emergen- at Charlotte Douglas Inter- ported across the region
young girl in a pink jacket fall and moisture refreez- cies ahead of the storm national Airport, the sixth Monday morning, with
threw her hands up and es, Cooper said at a news crossing several Southern busiest airport in the coun- North Carolina bearing
yelled “Merry Christmas!” conference. The Highway states, which hit portions of try. The airport had nearly the brunt of it, according
at a passer-by along a resi- Patrol already had re- North Carolina and Virginia 400 cancellations, about to poweroutage.us. South
dential sidewalk. sponded to more than 670 particularly hard. one-fourth of its scheduled Carolina, Virginia and Ten-
A few cars passed on the collisions and nearly 1,600 Flight cancellations and flights. More than 244,000 nessee also had outages
road, but several people calls for services since the delays continued Monday power outages were re- reported Monday.q
decided it was safer to get storm began.
where they were going by Snowfall totals topped 20
foot. Andrew Dedman, 16, inches (50 centimeters) in Customs officers searching more travelers’ devices
was walking about a mile some areas of the western
(1.6 kilometers) through a part of the state, accord- By COLLEEN LONG ments and passports are data not properly secured.
flurry to visit a friend on their ing to the National Weath- Associated Press reviewed. If a secondary Some of the devices
day off from high school. er Service. NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Cus- inspection is needed, of- searched were not taken
“We’re just going to hang A truck driver died Sunday toms and Border Protection ficers may search devices offline, in violation of pro-
out, sit around, drink hot after suffering what ap- officers are searching the like phones, thumb drives cedures that say officers
chocolate,” he said. peared to be a heart at- electronic devices of trav- and computers to deter- can search the physical
Others ventured Monday tack from shoveling out elers more often, and did mine admissibility into the device but not what’s on
into ankle-deep snowdrifts his rig that got stuck at the not always follow proper country, and also to iden- a traveler’s cloud network.
to walk dogs. Ron Gordon, height of the storm along protocol, a new watchdog tify potential law violations. Homeland Security is the
75, donned boots and a Interstate 77 in the central report has found. For example, in March department that oversees
hooded winter jacket to part of the state, Yadkin The report made public 2018, officers found images the nation’s borders. In ad-
take out his dog, Easy. County Emergency Ser- Monday found there were and videos of terrorist-re- dition, in some cases, under
“She seems to like it,” he vices Director Keith Vestal 29,000 devices searched lated materials, and in an- a pilot program, officers
said, holding a walking said. at a port of entry out of 397 other search, graphic and can do an “advanced”
stick for extra traction. “She The state emergency oper- million travelers to the U.S. violent images including search which means a spe-
enjoys it more than I do.” ations center also said one in budget year 2017, up child pornography. Neither cially trained officer down-
The semi-retired photog- man died Sunday when a from 18,400 the year before person was admitted into loads information. But the
rapher said he could work tree fell on him in Meck- from 390 million travelers. the United States, accord- system wasn’t maintained
inside for the rest of the lenburg County, while an Officers are allowed under ing to the report. properly — software licens-
day, and he can cook on ailing woman died in Hay- law to look through de- But the Office of the In- ing wasn’t renewed — and
the gas stove even if the wood County when her vices of travelers who are spector General for Home- some information copied
house loses power again, oxygen was cut off due to referred for a secondary in- land Security found some to thumb drives was not
as it did for several hours power outages. spection. During the prima- searches were not prop- deleted when it should
Sunday. He said he moved Governors and local of- ry inspection, travel docu- erly documented, and have been.q