Heavy snow that coated Southwest Virginia starting Tuesday morning will gradually shift into freezing rain and then to rain across the region, which could cause flooding later in the week, according to the National Weather Service forecast.
A cadet takes a direct hit during the Virginia Tech Students vs the Corps of Cadets snowball battle on the Drillfield Tuesday.
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Friends pose with a snowball creation as the battle wound down on the Drillfield Tuesday.
Civilian students far out numbered the Corps of Cadets for the battle of the Drillfield Tuesday.
Sled riders walk up the snow covered Blacksburg Hill Municipal Golf Course as snowfall blanketed the area Tuesday.
Snow covers the walking path behind South County Library on Monday morning where a family, who wished to remain anonymous, plays with their dogs and sleds.
Snow collects on a leaf on Tuesday morning.
Photos: Tuesday's snow, including an epic snowball battle at Virginia Tech
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A cadet takes a direct hit during the Virginia Tech Students vs the Corps of Cadets snowball battle on the Drillfield Tuesday.
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A surrounded cadet reloads during Tuesday's snowball battle.
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Outnumbered Corps of Cadets members fight back while using a defensive snowball battle strategy on the Virginia Tech Drillfield Tuesday.
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Friends pose with a snowball creation as the battle wound down on the Drillfield Tuesday.
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Virginia Tech student Joaquin Tuckett hoped that the size of his snowball would matter at the start of Tuesday's battle.
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Snowballs fly on the front lines of the Students vs the Corps of Cadets snowball battle on the Drillfield Tuesday. After almost an hour the corps was driven from the field.
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Civilian students far out numbered the Corps of Cadets for the battle of the Drillfield Tuesday.
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SNOWBALL FIGHT
A student deflects a snowball in the heat of battle in the Virginia Tech Students vs the Corps of Cadets snowball fight on the Drillfield Tuesday at Virginia Tech. After almost an hour the corps was driven from the field, far outnumbered by civilian students. Started more than 100 years ago, one of the school’s oldest traditions pits members of the Corps against their non-cadet classmates in a massive snowball fight to celebrate the first major snowfall of the academic year.
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Sled riders walk up the snow covered Blacksburg Hill Municipal Golf Course as snowfall blanketed the area Tuesday.
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Snow covers the walking path behind South County Library on Monday morning where a family, who wished to remain anonymous, plays with their dogs and sleds.
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A walker crosses Merriman Road toward Starkey Park on Tuesday morning after snowfall.
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A dog looks out at snowfall on Tuesday morning.
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Snow collects on a leaf on Tuesday morning.
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Rito Casauay shovels snow in his Roanoke County neighborhood on Tuesday.
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South County Library Trail is covered with snow on Tuesday morning.
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A bike decoration collects snow in a Roanoke County neighborhood on Tuesday.
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Birds take flight from snow covered branches in Roanoke County on Tuesday.
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A duck makes its way along the creek at Starkey Park on Tuesday morning after snowfall.
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Snow collects on foliage on Tuesday morning.
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A snow scene is shown in Roanoke County Tuesday.
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Snow covers the walking path behind South County Library on Tuesday morning where a family, who wished to remain anonymous, plays with their dogs and sleds.
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A dog looks out at snowfall on Tuesday morning.
