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Hurricane Ian quickly fell apart after landfall Friday as it moved inland. On the outside, it looked like a typical weakening tropical system. On the inside, it was undergoing a major remodeling during the hours that followed its destruction along the coast. Shortly before midnight Friday, snow and sleet suddenly started mixing with the rain along the Virginia/Tennessee border. A few reports even came in from places like WhiteTop. Evan Fisher witnessed the occurrence in the High Country. According to records, a September snow there has only been observed one other time there, in 1967. The key to getting the...

A woman who wasm reported missing this week after she went hiking in North Carolina's Blueridge Mountains was reportedly found alive and tied to a tree. The unnamed 64-year-old woman was reported missing near the Blueridge Parkway on Thursday after a friend called 911 in the early afternoon. According to reports, the friend received texts messages from the woman, who said she was having some sort of emergency, according to the Citizen-Times. After about an hour, the woman was reportedly found tied to a tree near a trail, according to a fire department dispatch radio recording obtained by WLOS. Crime...