The Fort Bragg Department of Motor Vehicles office has reopened its doors after closing in 2020.
City and county leaders urged everyone to prepare and stock up on essentials such as water and non-perishable food.
A major winter storm is set to lash the eastern half of the United States with damaging ice and heavy snow late this week.
"We actually have been proactively contacting some of our infusion patients, some of our dialysis patients, to see if we can do modified schedules."
Spokesperson Kim Deaner says crews are also expecting ice to linger on the roads for a while, and there could be downed trees.