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Jessamine County weathers another winter storm

School district uses fourth of eight scheduled make-up days

December 16, 2010|By Jonathan Kleppinger | jkleppinger@jessaminejournal.com

Photo by Jonathan Kleppinger

Jessamine County found itself well prepared Thursday for a much-hyped winter storm that hit the area in the early morning.

The storm brought additional snow and ice on top of snow from the weekend storm that hadn’t melted yet, but there were no reports of major power outages or injuries related to the weather as of late Thursday afternoon.

Jessamine County Emergency Management Director John V. Carpenter said the county was ready for a storm that didn’t cripple the area as much as many had anticipated.

“It’s not as significant of an event as everybody was trying to make it out to be,” he said. “It could have been a lot worse, but it’s better to be forewarned than to have it sneak up on you.”

Carpenter said while some cars had slid into ditches, there had been no accidents out of the ordinary and no injuries. Jessamine County EMS Chief Jerry Domidion said late Thursday morning his agency had not received any calls related to the weather.

“It has been quiet this morning; I think everybody’s just staying in,” Domidion said. “We’ve had some normal calls, but nothing that’s related to weather that I’ve heard of.”

The Jessamine County school district announced early Thursday morning that schools would be closed Thursday for the third day this week. In the late afternoon, the district announced school was canceled Friday, which was the last scheduled day before Christmas break.

School was canceled on Monday and Tuesday, forcing the district to add the first two scheduled make-up days to the school calendar, May 26 and May 27. Thursday’s closure will open the schools on Feb. 21, which was previously scheduled off for President’s Day. Friday's closure pushes the current last day of school to Tuesday, May 31.

The school district has four more possible make-up days scheduled: May 30 (Memorial Day), June 1, June 2 and June 3.

Most snow days in the district recently have come in January and February; the four December snow days this year alone are twice as many as the district has seen in the previous six years combined.

“My first reaction is that this doesn’t bode well for the spring because it could mean that we’re going to have an unusually large amount of snow,” Young said, “but I haven’t heard any long-range details about that.”

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