Lawrence County Emergency Management Director Travis Hughes told Big Sandy News that other than falling trees and power outages people have “hunkered down” for the most part causing minimal wrecks and a less volume of 911 calls unlike what we seen in the winter storm of 2021.
Hughes said between agencies and departments such as road workers, fire departments, national guard, volunteers, police officers, utility crews and many more people being on the same page things have been running smoothly for the most part for the citizens.
“The worst part of all of this is the ice, luckily we had some snow first,” said Hughes. “The National Guard has been assisting us with getting hospital and nursing home employees to work and Judge Phillip Carter was able to call on them to also come in and cut trees out of the roadways to get them opened back up.”…