Hospitals across the Triangle have been busy treating a variety of sledding and other ice-related injuries.
"We actually have been proactively contacting some of our infusion patients, some of our dialysis patients, to see if we can do modified schedules."
The NCDOT will focus first on areas that freeze the fastest.
The most common issues they see after a winter storm are side impact and suspension damage due to cars sliding off the road or into another object.
All lanes of I-85 westbound have reopened near Hillsborough after being closed for nearly 9 hours.