After dodging one winter storm over the weekend, Warren County wasn’t as lucky Tuesday morning as snow accompanied by a frigid arctic blast left the Nursery Capital at a standstill.
“The roads are really slick and hazardous,” said Warren County Road Superintendant Levie Glenn after he and his crews began battling the snowy. conditions around 7 a.m. Tuesday.
While the clipper system dumped only around 2 inches of snow over the course of about five hours Tuesday, the dangerously low temperatures that accompanied the event caused terrible driving conditions.
“The salt doesn’t work well when the temperature dips below 20,” Glenn said, noting he expected the roads to freeze over Tuesday night and Wednesday morning despite their best efforts. “It will be slick countywide.
My advice is to keep off the roads except in cases of emergency because they are going to remain slick until it warms up a bit Thursday.”
His advice has apparently been heeded as Valerie Womack of E-911 said calls were minimum during the snow.
“It’s been surprisingly quiet,” Womack said when contacted early Tuesday afternoon, prior to the afternoon rush hour. “We had a few wrecks with property damage but nothing major.”
Director of Schools Bobby Cox says schools will be closed again Wednesday, leaving the school system with four bad weather days left for the year.
“We have an option of taking a educational development day and converting it later if we need it,” Cox said of technically having five days left after Wednesday.
Schools have been closed all week and were also closed Friday due to cold and expected bad weather. The cold caused pipes to break at Hickory Creek Elementary last week, causing major damage to two rooms there.
The fact temperatures are expected to dip into single digits Wednesday is a concern.
“We will be checking the buildings,” Cox said, noting they do not want a repeat of the damage at Hickory Creek.
With the travel advisory in effect through Wednesday evening, forecasters say there will be a break in the weather Thursday when highs are expected to rebound into the 40s.
