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ASHEVILLE, North Carolina — Heavy snow and damaging winds slammed the northern North Carolina mountains Friday afternoon through early Saturday, snarling travel along United States Route 19 from Madison County through Yancey and Mitchell counties, where 1 to 4 inches of snow piled up with isolated totals of 6 to 8 inches near the Tennessee border.
The National Weather Service office in Greenville-Spartanburg kept a Winter Weather Advisory in effect from 1 p.m. Friday through 7 a.m. Saturday for Madison, Yancey, and Mitchell counties, expanding the advisory to include all elevations as wind gusts increased to 60 miles per hour, with up to 65 miles per hour on exposed ridgetops…