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Snow cancels school, causes crashes

January 02, 2008|HERB BROCK

Students in three area schools districts got an extra day of holiday vacation today as slick roads caused by sub-freezing temperatures and light snow forced the cancellation of classes in the Danville, Boyle County and Casey County school districts.

Schools in the other four area districts were scheduled to be off today.

Meanwhile, spokesmen for city police and county sheriff departments in Boyle, Casey, Garrard, Lincoln and Mercer counties this morning said they had no reports of weather-related, injury accidents.

However, a spokesman for the Kentucky State Police Post at Richmond said troopers investigated several weather-related, minor accidents Tuesday in Garrard and Lincoln counties. He said none were reported in Boyle and Mercer counties. A dispatcher at the Columbia state police post said no accidents were reported in Casey County.

"Some (of the accidents) in Garrard and Lincoln may have involved very minor injuries, but none of the parties was hospitalized," said Chris Lanham, the Richmond post spokesman. "Things were much worse in other parts of the post area, especially in eastern and southern central Kentucky."

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County and state road departments were out late Tuesday night spreading salt. Spokesmen for the departments said most major roads were in good condition this morning.

"Most of our roads are in pretty decent shape now with the salting we did last night, but there were some pretty bad slick spots, especially in the Salvisa area in the northern part of the county," said a spokesman for the Mercer County Road Department.

Grocers see little increase in activity

Despite weather forecasts Sunday and Monday calling for very cold temperatures and a chance of one to two inches of snow overnight Tuesday and this morning, some area grocers said today they didn't get the big influx of customers that normally occurs when winter weather is predicted.

"Usually, even if the forecast just calls for flurries, things get pretty wild around here with people buying up bread and milk," said Danny Smith, manager of Kroger in Danville. "But we haven't had any of that this time."

Snowfall totaled 3 inches today in Whitley County in southeastern Kentucky, but most accumulations were about an inch in eastern Kentucky, said Jeff Carico, a National Weather Service spokesman in Jackson.

The snow contributed to slippery roads and a number of accidents, including a crash that caused an hours-long backup at the northern interchange of interstate highways 75 and 64 in Lexington on Tuesday night.

A warming trend is expected later in the week, with highs forecast in the 40s on Friday.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.

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