Slick Roads Due To Snow & Ice

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Posted: 7:49 AM Dec 11, 2008
Last Updated: 12:03 PM Feb 10, 2009
Reporter: Kimberly Burcham
Email Address: kimberly.burcham@wymtnews.com

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Transportation departments across the region say roads are covered with snow. Crews are out in all counties to remove snow from the highways.

Numerous wrecks have been reported across the area due to the slick road conditions. Motorists are urged not to travel unless it is an emergency.

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Posted by: Elizabeth Location: Jellico Tn on Feb 4, 2009 at 05:04 AM
If you don't need to go out then don't! Roads are very slick and the back roads are bad! Stay Home!

Posted by: Johnson Location: Harlan co 840 road on Dec 14, 2008 at 06:51 PM
A car hit a tree head on crash on highway 840 Sunday morning around 8:30 am. Does anyone know who it was.

Posted by: Anonymous Location: Ky on Dec 13, 2008 at 03:54 PM
Who wouldn't want to be me. To never no location where eyes are at. Any whats nuff mean?

Posted by: never no Location: were the eyes are at on Dec 12, 2008 at 11:48 PM
its killin the road crew rite now I laid my camra down an quit tape in this is the only work these guys do dont wont to make ya mad but just as soon as the weather breaks watch for me filmin u guys sittin around an when I get about fifty tapes im going to mail it to the guy that hires u I think he would want to know who will work they sum of us that will work that could use a job an if you keep this up u are as the same SSI a check drawer as we got a nuff of them to dont need no more

Posted by: Anonymous Location: To Teacher: on Dec 12, 2008 at 09:48 PM
First off I would like to say that I DO have a very good education and I know how to type and use punctutation in sentences at a very high level. Secondly, I agree with you on the governors stand on education in KY. Find other areas to cut. We pay school taxes out the ying yang now as it is and I personally would LOVE to know where that money is going? One place is NOT the teachers/aides pockets. Finally, as far as missing school goes, you go if you wish on icy, snowing, slick roads. I prefer to stay home and keep my child home with me. The backroads in a huge part of the county do not get treated therefore they are VERY slick for automobile travel. There is NO way they could pay me enough to take a bus on a road (very narrow, not 2 lanes) to get over 30 children to endanger their lives. So, with that being said, you take yourself right on to school on snow days, get out some books, educate whom ever decides to show up but leave the rest of the county out of it!

Posted by: rj Location: pike ky on Dec 12, 2008 at 04:22 PM
all it takes is 1 bus wreck to kill several families dreams. I wish people could remember the bus crash that kill 27 people and the dreams of many others. I admit we need to fund the school systems but not endanger our kids lives. You can comment on how i write etc. but leave this state along be a teacher and teach more than books what about value of life.

Posted by: 101 Location: south east ky on Dec 12, 2008 at 03:33 PM
can some one please post where the wreck that killed the 2 coal miners?? and who they were. i have lots of family that working at the coal mines

Posted by: Anonymous Location: harlan on Dec 12, 2008 at 02:04 PM
Yes. There were two killed in an accident this morning in Harlan County.

Posted by: vikki Location: southeast ky on Dec 12, 2008 at 12:25 PM
just wondering if the story is true about a wreck in harlan co.. this morning where. some coal miners were killed in a car accident..

Posted by: Note to Teacher on Dec 12, 2008 at 11:01 AM
A few other people proved your point as they are commenting on the wrong story. See the comments from "Anonymous on Dec 12, 2008 at 01:00 AM" What a maron!

Posted by: WOW Location: Pineville on Dec 12, 2008 at 10:16 AM
That sure is a lot of snow we got out there, I swear I went out and just rolled around a few times in the snow, and then my parents yelled at me and said quit getting muddy. But oh well we got out of school.

Posted by: to the one who wrote to Mary-Beth on Dec 12, 2008 at 10:11 AM
What did you do? Get out of the wrong side of the bed!

Posted by: Rachel on Dec 12, 2008 at 10:06 AM
Jackson County wasn't even part of the advisory last night and didn't get put on the winter weather warning until after it was about down snowing here. We ended getting around 5 or 6 inches of snow with and inch of slushy ice under it.

Posted by: Teacher Location: KY on Dec 12, 2008 at 09:57 AM
All I can say is there seems to be quite a few illiterate people posting on here. Check your spelling and grammar; it is horrendous! By the way, grammar is not the person married to grandpa. What a backwards state we have here. A little bit of snow and nobody wants to attend school plus a Governor who wants to cut back on education due to lack of money. There are other things to cut back on Governor but you must leave funding for education as a "hands off" item. It did snow yesterday; in the form of a snow job by the Governor as well as that white stuff. Go to school you bunch of illiterate people!

Posted by: To Mary-Beth on Dec 12, 2008 at 06:07 AM
You obviously need to go to school to learn to use capitalization at the beginning of a sentence, and to use only one punctuation mark at the end of a sentence.

Posted by: john q taxpayer Location: east ky on Dec 12, 2008 at 06:05 AM
for the people that throw trsh in creeks, the state should put them in jail.

Posted by: Anonymous on Dec 12, 2008 at 01:00 AM
AUTOMOTIVE BAILOUT COULD CONGRESS NO COME TO THE AGREEMENT TO ALOTT IN SAYING A VOUCHER WITH THE ATACHMENT WHEN A VEHICAL WAS BOUGHT IT COULD NOT BE SOLD BY THE CONSUMER AND THE INVUDAL WOULD HAVE BOUGHT A CAR WOULD IT NOT CAUSE THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRIES PICK UP IN PRODUCTION AND THE CONSUMERS WOULD BENEIFIT FROME IT AS WELL AS THE AUTO INDUSTRIES IS THIS NOT A THOUGHT TO BEBIFIT ALL OS THE US.

Posted by: Tesia Simpson Location: Harlan Count on Dec 11, 2008 at 11:56 PM
Hey every1 be careful out n the roads tonight its very dangerous and slick here in Harlan County. BTW they should cancel school for Harlan county =[ Don't wanna go tomorrow but w/e becarful every1!

Posted by: Patrick sumpter Location: Harlan county on Dec 11, 2008 at 11:52 PM
OMG we should not have to go to school this is CRAZY! bell got out so harlan should get out =[ im so sad i didnt want to go to school =[ well people be carfull out on the roads the river is about 2 foot from touching the road where i live so be careful conquer online rulezz =D

Posted by: jaycob Location: pikeville on Dec 11, 2008 at 11:36 PM
man i love the snow and i'm glad that we don't have school friday!

Posted by: victoria Location: laurel county on Dec 11, 2008 at 11:29 PM
if we cut from are schools what bout are kids they will suffer and that not fair

Posted by: Angela Location: Owsley Co on Dec 11, 2008 at 11:01 PM
Already in Owsley County, about 1/2 mile from Lee Co and Owsley Line, no where near high elevation, we already have a little over 4 inches and if the snow is to start tappering at 6am, then we will have well over the warning! Frosty is on his way! Hooray for a white Christmas!

Posted by: angie Location: pikeville on Dec 11, 2008 at 10:53 PM
Please pray for Mr. Johnson's family and friends and please pray for the family and friends of Beau Caudill and all the people involved in the terrible accident on tuesday night. MY thoughts and prayers are with all of you and your family and friends. I'm deeply sorry for your loss. I pray for God to be with you and give you strength in your time of need.

Posted by: adams Location: eolia on Dec 11, 2008 at 10:46 PM
Letcher county schools needs a new supertindent because, she will not call off school when the roads are bad she has it when the roads are slick an like tomorrow, im not sending my kid across pine mountain an anyone with any common sense knows its already too bad for the buses to run tomorrow ,but there is already alot of closings but not letcher county school system she will try to make you wonder until tomorrow morning but im not gonna wonder my kid can sleep in ..

Posted by: Wanda Location: Wise on Dec 11, 2008 at 10:17 PM
I want a BIG snow storm!!!!!!! Like 17 inches or so.. :)

Posted by: Judy Location: Peoples on Dec 11, 2008 at 09:41 PM
The snow is "pouring" down as of 9 p.m. I haven't seen such heavy snow since March 1992.

Posted by: loll Location: tyy on Dec 11, 2008 at 08:48 PM
i hope it snows

Posted by: Tabitha Location: Manchester on Dec 11, 2008 at 08:22 PM
I hope that Clay County Schools Get CLOSED for tomorrow cause I love it when it snows it was snowing last night it was pooring the snow and it was so pretty! WKYT NEWS my mom watches the WKYT news and I watch it with her! Good-Bye WKYT

Posted by: britt <3 Location: pburg on Dec 11, 2008 at 08:08 PM
I think we should get out of school for snow = D

Posted by: Stephanie Location: Leatherwood on Dec 11, 2008 at 07:20 PM
I hope it snows. But I still want to go to school. I Love School. I dread making up all the finals and getting them in on time because of all the missed days. Besides i don't want it to effect our summer vacation cause the more school we miss the longer we have to go.

Posted by: marybeth Location: pineville on Dec 11, 2008 at 04:33 PM
i think we should get out of school for a flood..

Posted by: phoebe Location: prestonsburg ky on Dec 11, 2008 at 04:26 PM
everyone please be careful on the roads tonight and in the morning this rain and wind with cold temps could be very bad roads to be traveling on. think of others not just yourself when traveling

Posted by: Melonie B Location: Whitesburg on Dec 11, 2008 at 02:17 PM
This is what happens when you build your house in the creek.

Posted by: Jim Location: Jackson on Dec 11, 2008 at 02:16 PM
This is good we need the rain and it will wash away the trash that this bunch of mis-fits throw in the creeks.

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