MARTIN COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - Winter conditions persist across the east with travel still challenging in some areas. Traveling through Martin County was especially challenging as many back roads were still covered in ice. Naturally, traffic was very slow moving as a result.

Officials have urged residents to stay off the roads in portions of Virginia and North Carolina, where a storm dropped heavy snow and caused hundreds of accidents in places that aren’t accustomed to significant accumulations.

Several states along the Atlantic Coast were set to receive up to a foot of snow as much of the central U.S. faced dangerously cold temperatures.