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Valuable Safety Travel Tips for Winter Driving in Kentucky
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It is by no means too early to arrange for winter climate. When there’s snow or ice, we all know that we will depend on crews to work across the clock to clear roads for our security. The Kentucky Transportation Cupboard is providing some invaluable suggestions to assist us put together for inclement climate. Discover out what you could know to make sure a secure journey.
Blizzard highway work
Though Kentucky’s climate is nothing just like the climate I endured when dwelling in Northern Michigan, it could nonetheless worsen. Particularly on metropolis or county roads or on highways for people who must journey. Winters are brutal in Michigan and fortuitously we do not get climate like that in Kentucky fairly often. However, after we can we’re fortunate to have nice highway crews to maintain us secure.
Kentucky Highway Crews Prepared for Inclement Climate
Salt and snow plow crews throughout Kentucky are educated, ready, and prepared for winter climate on state routes. There is a fleet of greater than 1,365 state-owned and contracted plow vehicles on standby to work via the night time and into the morning when wanted. Crews have a troublesome job and infrequently do not get the popularity that they deserve, however we might help by being cautious on the roads the place they’re working.
KYTC maintains most roads, streets, and bridges which are a part of the State Freeway System. Examples embrace interstates, parkways, and U.S. route designations.
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Kentucky Transportation Cupboard Touring Suggestions
Winter storms have the potential to derail your journey plans, so it is necessary to be ready. The Kentucky Transportation Cupboard supplied these necessary tricks to hold you and your loved ones secure whereas touring.
• Journey solely as crucial throughout main snow occasions.
• Inventory autos with ice scrapers, jumper cables, blankets, a flashlight, a cellphone charger, non-perishable snacks, and a primary help package do you have to get stranded on the highway.
• Winterize autos. Have your automotive battery, tire strain, and brakes checked. Make certain your heater, defroster, headlights, and windshield wipers are working correctly.
• When snow and/or ice are on roadways, drive slowly it doesn’t matter what kind of auto you’re in. It takes extra time and distance to cease your automobile in poor climate circumstances, so brake early and slowly.
• Take note of climate advisories and permit extra time to journey for routine commutes.
• Decelerate when approaching intersections, off-ramps, bridges, or shaded areas. These are all candidates for growing black ice—a skinny coating of clear ice that may type on the pavement floor which may be troublesome to see.
• Preserve a secure distance from snowplows and different heavy freeway tools and don’t cross snowplows on the shoulder.
• Know earlier than you go. Obtain the free WAZE app or go to goky.ky.gov to test site visitors circumstances earlier than you journey. The map additionally affords entry to pick site visitors cameras on interstates and parkways.
• Get rid of distractions whereas driving (e.g. utilizing a cellphone and consuming).
Being ready for winter driving provides you with peace of thoughts if you hit the highway. Particularly throughout vacation journey to go to household and associates. Be secure!
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Hospitals in Kentucky facing position vacancies
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CLAY COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT)— Since the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals throughout the country have faced a large number of position vacancies.
However, according to a 2023 report by the Kentucky Hospital Association, hospitals are seeing that number lower.
CEO of the association Nancy Galvagni said hospitals are focusing on ways to get the younger generation to fill the vacant positions.
“Our members are looking at how can they design benefits that are going to be more attractive to a younger workforce,” she said.
While the number of vacancies is decreasing, Galvagni said the number of vacancies is still too high and there is more work that needs to be done.
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Alabama football injury update: Latest from Kalen DeBoer before Western Kentucky
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Kalen DeBoer started the first game week with good news on the injury update front.
DeBoer was asked to provide an injury update Monday on starters Jaeden Roberts and Jam Miller, and he seemed optimistic about both. DeBoer said Roberts and Miller are expected to practice and “be ready to go” for Saturday against Western Kentucky.
Meanwhile, on backup linebacker Jeremiah Alexander also dealing with an injury, DeBoer said “would not probably expect him” for Saturday.
Miller has been banged up during some of the latest preseason practices, and Roberts sustained an injury during the second scrimmage.
Miller is expected to start at running back this season, and Roberts is expected to return to his starting spot at right guard again this season.
Alabama is set to face Western Kentucky on Saturday (6 p.m., ESPN) at Bryant-Denny Stadium to kick off a new era of football with Nick Saban no longer the coach for the first time since 2006.
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Kentucky sheriff facing DUI charge for second time
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ROBERTSON COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) – The sheriff of Kentucky’s smallest county is facing a DUI charge for the second time.
Robertson County Sheriff Terry Gray was arrested Sunday evening after police got a call about someone driving a tractor off of the road.
When police arrived, Gray was back on the road. They then initiated a traffic stop and arrested him.
Gray was off duty.
Gray’s previous DUI arrest was in December 2023, when Kentucky State Police say he was driving drunk in his quad car near a school.
His next court date for that charge is September 18.
Gray is currently in the Bourbon County Detention Center.
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