The snow from last weekend's winter storm might have stopped Saturday, but West Virginia residents are likely to feel the effects for a while.
As of Monday evening, most main roads and interstates had been cleared off in Kanawha County, and crews were focusing on secondary streets, said C.W. Sigman, deputy director of the Kanawha Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.
"They're getting better and better, but I'm sure there are a lot of back roads that still have problems," Sigman said.
He also said many private roads are barely passable, since neither the city nor state plows them.
Schools in Kanawha County are closed for a fourth day on Tuesday, and many other counties have followed suit, blaming road conditions. However, many businesses, restaurants and government offices opened as normal on Monday, and the West Virginia Legislature returned to Charleston to begin work again.
Part of the roof at the Capitol Flea Market, near Capital High School, just north of Charleston, collapsed under the weight of the weekend's snow.
Manager Lisa Monroe said the market's outdoor pavilion and a shed caved in over the weekend. In the 20 years the flea market's been operating, Monroe said, it had never received this much damage from snow. She said an insurance company would come out to assess the damage on Tuesday.
After the small shed collapsed Saturday morning, the pavilion followed Sunday night.
Monroe said that while the damage to the pavilion is a "tragedy" and a "complete loss," she is thankful the market was closed over the weekend so no one was injured in the collapse.
"This weekend was the first time the market was closed in I don't know how long," she said.
The flea market is open year-round, and its vendors frequently sold items from the outdoor pavilion. Monroe said the rest of the market will remain open while the pavilion is rebuilt.
"We'll have a place [indoors] for anyone who wants to come set up," she said.
After several crashes, the state Division of Highways closed ramps at the MacCorkle Avenue exit of Interstate 64, in South Charleston, on Monday, so that crews could clear snow from the ramps.
The weekend snowfall might have also played a role in a water main break in South Charleston that led to several others, leaving some residents without water since Thursday.
Laura Jordan, external affairs manager for West Virginia American Water, said an initial water main break Thursday in the Central Avenue area of South Charleston near Henson Avenue was followed by about nine more main breaks over the weekend in the same area because of a "water pressure issue."
"Once they made repairs and turned the water back on, it caused a blowout in other areas," Jordan said Monday. "It's happened multiple times."
She didn't how many households were affected by the main breaks but said crews hoped to have all the lines repaired by Monday afternoon.
Jordan said the company responded to about 45 water main breaks in the Kanawha Valley over the weekend.
Several thousand Appalachian Power customers in Jackson County, who lost power Sunday, had it restored by Monday afternoon, according to the company.
Because of canceled refuse pickups on Friday and Monday, the city of Charleston will have a garbage-packer truck stationed beneath the interstate along Pennsylvania Avenue between Randolph and Virginia streets from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday.
City crews had hoped to pick up on Monday where they had to leave off Friday, but they were unable to do so because of the sheer volume of snow on city streets, mayoral assistant Rod Blackstone said in an email. He said refuse workers will try to pick up the Friday routes on Tuesday, but residents can take their trash to the truck if they want.
South Charleston was limiting its garbage collection on Monday and Tuesday to curbside collection but said trash pickup would be back to normal on Wednesday.
The Transit Mall in Charleston remained closed Monday, according to the Kanawha Valley Regional Transportation Authority. Buses were using Summers Street to pick up and drop off passengers. KRT warned that, in some cases, passengers might have to board on the street because of the snow on the curbs, and asked that passengers take care. Some routes were changed and buses were delayed because of the snowstorm. For more information visit Kanawha Valley Regional Transportation Authority's Facebook page.