NWS issues wind advisory for Saturday. How strong could winds get?

If your trash pickup got moved to Saturday thanks to last weekend’s winter storm, you might want to grab your garbage bin off the curb soon.

The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory for central North Carolina until 7 p.m. Saturday. The agency warns that gusts could blow down any unsecured outdoor objects and cause power outages.

As of Saturday morning, Duke Energy’s Outage Map shows about 3,000 households in the Triangle without power and over 18,000 in the state. The state’s power outage map shows roughly 2,400 power outages in Wake, Durham, Orange, Chatham and Johnston counties…

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