GLENCOE, Kentucky (WXIX) – Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear urges drivers to keep away from Interstate 71 in Northern Kentucky after a number of Southbound cicadas turn out to be stranded on steep snow and ice hills .
The Kentucky State Guard and Kentucky State Police are on the scene in Glencoe, Gallatin County, clearing up this “main backup,” he tweeted.
“Everybody be protected!”
A blizzard hit the tri-state earlier than daybreak on Friday, bringing record-breaking temperatures, rain, snow, ice, “flash-freeze” situations and chills from subzero gusts.
Kentucky shouldn’t be alone.
Relying on the place you reside, there’s ice on the Tri-State snow trails that may drop wherever from 2 to five inches of snow in a single day.
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Kentucky’s rugged highways have been a specific downside for the semifinals since snow and temperatures started to free-fall on Thursday evening.
A number of cicadas collided on Interstate 275 on the Carol Lee Cropper Bridge in northern Kentucky, bringing site visitors to a whole cease.
Boone County dispatchers mentioned it occurred round 10:15 p.m. when the Arctic entrance started to maneuver.
In Boone County, the eastbound lane of Interstate 275 was closed on and off for hours into Friday morning.
Two semi-trucks certain for Kentucky and several other different automobiles skidded as they tried to climb the hill throughout the Carroll Cropper Bridge over the Ohio River.
The Boone County Sheriff’s Division rushed tow vans, salt vans, and plows to the scene.
The preliminary lockdown lasted practically 4 hours.
Interstate reopened round 2am
That stretch shut down at the very least three extra instances late Friday morning.
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