Kentuckians deal with wintry blast

First it snowed and now it’s going to freeze: Welcome to Kentucky’s icebox weekend.

Between four and six inches of snow covered Fayette County Saturday morning, although many roads were cleared by noon.

Eastern Kentucky, however, got hit with a bigger snow punch: Sara George, information officer with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet District 12, said snow reached as high as 10 to 12 inches in mountainous parts of Eastern Kentucky and fell as fast as an inch per hour.

Now comes the second wave of a wintry weekend: a trailing blast of freezing temperatures could make roads slick again well into Sunday, with the Lexington area expected to wake up to temperatures possibly as low as the single digits. Activities from church services to bingo were canceled.

Although much of Kentucky has yet to see the foot-plus snows and electric line-popping ice of past years, Friday night’s snowstorm led to a raft of accidents: Lt. Chris Vanbrackel of the Lexington police department said that between midnight Friday and 4 p.m. Saturday, police responded to 77 non-injury accidents, six injury collisions and 42 motorist assists.
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