The situation is improving a bit, and Boyd County and northeastern Kentucky.

But officials say the region isn't out of the clear just yet.

Our Emily Sisk spoke with the emergency management director there to see what concerns still linger.

Tim England, the director of Boyd County Emergency Management, is with us now taking a break from being out in the field.

So we so appreciate your time.

Director England, we want to ask you, you know, we've heard about weather conditions in south central and central Kentucky, but what was it like in northeast Kentucky?

Well, we got very lucky compared to what some of our counterparts, the impacts that they had.

We did have, the small amount of snow.

But unfortunately, when you get to sleet and freezing rain on top, we had probably just over two inches of that compacted, so it made it challenging.

But we and we did have some glazing on the trees.

And so far our power outages have been very minimal.

So we did not have the impacts we had in the other counties.

So we're very fortunate in that respect.

Yeah.

So tell us about, you know, when the storm first hit, what were the road conditions like.

And now that a couple of days have passed.

What is it like now?

Yeah.

So the first 12 hours, we didn't have a lot of accumulation, but they did.

They did plow and they saw that unfortunately, the temperatures have crashed and we've not had a lot of help with that.

So, today was going to be a bright spot.

We were hoping to have the sun out and the temperatures are going to be close to 25 or so, and the sun was out for a few hours, and then it went back behind the clouds.

And it's not been back out.

So temperatures are back down around in the teens.

Salt's not being effective.

No matter how much we put down roads now are better.

So our main roads are in decent shape.

Our secondary and and our side streets in most areas, especially in the rural parts of the county, are covered in dangerous.

Yeah, definitely.

And, you know, I think I just seen a post from the emergency management Facebook page talking about how adding more road salt is not always the answer.

When you got these cold temperatures, I think.

So Ashland is expecting windshield to feel like it's in the negatives today and tonight.

So you know what's next?

What do you do whenever you had these kind of conditions?

Well, there's not a lot we can do.

The treatments are not working.

The are good crews are still going to be out, and we're trying to to get at least a little bit water and pass on some of those shoulders that we have snow plow to as far as getting the ice up.

It's probably going to be with us for days.

Unfortunately, through the weekend at least, if not to the first of the week, some areas will not melt and we will not better get off.

That's going to be our challenge.

And and that's why we're asking the public to be patient, to understand that we have crews out.

It's just it's not very effective in this type of weather, especially with the temperatures the way they are.

We hope that the temperatures can keep rising and maybe see some more sun at some point.

But we thank you all for all your hard work, and I'm sure you got to get back out in the field.

So director Tim England with the board, County emergency management, we so appreciate it.

Thank you.

With, you know, stay safe and stay warm as you can out there.

All right.

Thank you.

I appreciate it.

And thank you, Emily.

This afternoon, Boyd County reduced its snow emergency from a level two to a level one.

That's good news.

That means while road conditions are improving, they are still hazardous.

And drivers should still use caution.