
Cumberland County Rebounding From Winter Storm
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The county saw widespread damage from snow and ice.
While a winter storm impacted the entire state this week, Southern Kentucky saw the greatest number of power outages. Cumberland County Judge/Executive Luke King discussed his county's response to the storm and lessons learned.
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Cumberland County Rebounding From Winter Storm
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While a winter storm impacted the entire state this week, Southern Kentucky saw the greatest number of power outages. Cumberland County Judge/Executive Luke King discussed his county's response to the storm and lessons learned.
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Road conditions are improving across the state, although side roads are still hazardous in many areas, as you probably know.
Freezing temperatures and power outages continue to be the biggest issue.
Southern Kentucky and southeast Kentucky saw more ice than snow.
Pulaski County was one of the areas hardest hit.
Today, there are still more than 1700 customers without power.
That's down from around 11 or 10,000 at the peak of the storm.
Cumberland County was also hit hard this week.
Today we spoke with the county's judge executive, who said getting through this storm has been a team effort.
This is the biggest disaster winter related disaster that Cumberland County has had since the 1994 snow storm.
This storm was a little different because when it originally hit, you had that light, fluffy snow mix that we needed to get out and push off of the road, but we also didn't want to be caught out there when that sleet and rain mix came down.
Freezing rain mix came down because that certainly made for treacherous conditions.
We ended up in a situation that was less than ideal.
On Sunday evening we had two dump trucks and the greater in ditches, three separate locations and three separate pieces of equipment all over that.
That evening that was just after dark.
And that makes for a challenging time when you've only got eight pieces of equipment out there.
When that call comes in telling us we've got a blind down or trees down that that brought a line down, we then have to get folks out to clear the road just to get to that point, because if we've got a line down, Tri County will go to it, but they have to be able to get to that line.
So that meant we had to dispatch Cumberland County Road crew members or Marshal fire Department or Marathon volunteer fire department members or contract workers to get that road cleared so that the linemen could restore power.
This was really difficult in this weather event because we didn't have the luxury of our road crew going out and cutting all those trees and pushing snow and busting up us.
We had to prioritize.
I don't know how counties get through a storm like this without working together.
It truly brings out the best of the best in all of these counties.
We hear a lot today about this side or that side on any given issue.
But when a crisis happens, it it seems to bring out the best in all of these counties.
And I know it did for Cumberland County.
And we hear that often now.
Judge executive King says the county provided more than 400 meals from its shelter this week because of the winter storm.
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