Snow Blankets Eastern Kentucky
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Updated: 8:59 PM Feb 4, 2009
Snow Blankets Eastern Kentucky
Snow blankets eastern Kentucky with several inches reported in many parts of the region.
Posted: 5:42 PM Feb 4, 2009
Reporter: Marie Luby
Email Address: marie.luby@wymtnews.com
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Snow blankets eastern Kentucky with several inches reported in many parts of the region.
The snow caused more than 200 closings in the area and made for hazardous driving conditions throughout the day Wednesday.
We talked to some those trying to dig themselves out of the mess.

Shoveling, scraping, and plowing. A lot of extra work, just to get to work.

Cecil Smith could not make it home last night from his job at Sportsworld in Hazard.

"The roads got so bad and where I live at is the head of a hollow," says Smith.

So he spent the night here in an office!

Smith says, "I made me a little bed in there, got plenty of shirts and clothes and stuff to lay on."

This Rhino was Cager Baker's only hope of leaving his Buckhorn house today.

"All this snow and ice, you just ain't going nowhere on it," says Baker.

Abandoned cars stuck in ditches along Flat Gap Road in Perry County prove his point. Some who gave up on driving, decided to walk.

"I was hoping we wouldn't get it; I'm sick of the snow," says Leo Combs.

Combs wishes he'd stocked up on groceries before the storm hit.

He says, "It's not no fun no more now that i'm grown up. It was fun when you were a kid and got out to sleigh ride and stuff like that but, ain't no fun no more."

Dispatchers in Hazard say they've had fewer accident reports than expected, but hope it's because more people are waiting it out at home.

If you have plans to drive, you can find numbers to check road conditions in Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee on our SNOGO.

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