The Office of Adair County Emergency Management would like to wish you a merry Christmas and happy holidays. We would like to also remind you this Christmas to "Turn Around, Don't Drown", when you encounter flooded roadways. Several streams have flooded roadways and pooling / runoff on roadways can cause hydroplaning.
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FLOOD WATCH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 351 AM EST FRI DEC 25 2015 ...FLOODING POSSIBLE OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY THROUGH SATURDAY... .MULTIPLE ROUNDS OF MODERATE TO AT TIMES HEAVY RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THIS RAIN FALLING ON ALREADY SATURATED GROUNDS COULD CREATE FLOODING ISSUES. GARRARD-MADISON-CASEY-LINCOLN-MONROE-ADAIR-RUSSELL-CUMBERLAND- CLINTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF... LANCASTER...RICHMOND...BEREA...LIBERTY...STANFORD...TOMPKINSVILLE... COLUMBIA...RUSSELL SPRINGS... JAMESTOWN...SALEM...BURKESVILLE...ALBANY
FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM EST /6 AM CST/ THIS MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLOOD WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY. * FROM 7 AM EST /6 AM CST/ THIS MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING * 1 TO 2.5 INCHES OF RAINFALL WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS ARE EXPECTED TODAY THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING. * THIS RAINFALL MAY CREATE FLOODING ESPECIALLY IN LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE SPOTS. RISES ON AREA CREEKS AND STREAMS MAY ALSO RESULT IN MINOR FLOODING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FLOOD WATCH MEANS THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING BASED ON CURRENT FORECASTS. YOU SHOULD MONITOR LATER FORECASTS AND BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE FLOOD WARNINGS. THOSE LIVING IN AREAS PRONE TO FLOODING SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION SHOULD FLOODING DEVELOP. On Wednesday, December 23rd Columbia Police Department Officers spent the evening delivering gifts and food to families in need. This has been a annual event for the department for many years. CPD School Resource Officer Kevin Atwood and Family Resource's identify families that might be in need during Christmas. Some children are identified by the officers who are often stopped while on patrol and ask for assistance. The gifts where delivered to the homes where officers got to spend time with the children. We are very blessed to be able to help out at this time of year and would like to give a special thanks to Murphy Well Service and another special donor who wished to remain silent who helped us raise the funds for this project. Chief Cross and all the officer's with the Columbia Police Department wish everybody a Merry Christmas and hope everyone a safe Holliday season !! Tpr. Adam Likins is investigating a collision that occurred on Tuesday, December 22nd at approximately 8:54 PM EDT on KY 78 near the junction of KY 906. 37-year-old Marvin Wilson II, of Hustonville KY was operating an eastbound 1999 Chevrolet Cavalier on KY 78 when he lost control of the vehicle, ran off the roadway, striking multiple fence posts before coming to final rest in a field.
Wilson was not wearing a seatbelt and was pronounced dead at the scene. Alcohol is believed to be a contributing factor. Tpr. Likins was assisted at the scene by Casey County Fire, EMS and Rescue. The Columbia City Council will meet in Regular Session on January 4, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. in City Hall.
Items on the agenda are as follows: Motion to pass minutes from the December 7, 2015 meeting. Rhonda Loy City Clerk LONDON, KY.) - On Wednesday, December 23, 2015 at approximately 3:24 AM, Kentucky State Police Post 11, London received a report of a fire inside the Rockcastle County Detention Center with multiple injuries to inmates and staff members.
Seven different Fire Departments throughout Rockcastle County responded to the scene and extinguished the flames. KSP Detectives learned through an investigation that 102 inmates and four staff members were inside the facility at the time of the fire. 13 inmates and two staff members where taken to local hospitals and treated for non-life threatening injuries. Multiple agencies responded to assist in evacuating the entire facility. All of the inmates were taken to the Laurel County Detention Center in London, by bus and patrol cars. KSP Post 11 Arson Investigator, Detective Brian Lewis is continuing the investigation and suspects the cause of the fire to be arson. No arrest has been made at this time. He was assisted at the scene by Troopers from Post 11, Kentucky State Police Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officers, Rockcastle County Sheriff's Office, Mount Vernon Police Department, Rockcastle County Detention Center Officers, Laurel County Detention Center Officers, Mount Vernon Fire Department, Brodhead Fire Department, Livingston Fire Department, Climax Fire Department, Brindle Ridge Fire Department, Western Rockcastle Fire Department, Pongo Fire Department and Laurel County Fire Rescue. FRANKFORT, Ky. (WHAS11) – The office of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services was evacuated after a report of an armed person on Dec. 23.
The office is located in the 270 block of East Main Street in Frankfort. Frankfort Police said they are on the scene. They started searching the office around 7:30 a.m. and secured it. Police said they have not found an armed person at this time. A spokesperson for the Cabinet of Health and Family Services could not confirm if the threat was founded. Story courtesy of WHAS.com FRANKFORT, Ky. --The Cabinet for Health and Family Services building in Frankfort has been evacuated.
According to the director of health and family services, Jill Midkiff, a threat was made Wednesday morning. Police have cleared and secured the building, located in the 200 block of East Main Street. No injuries were reported WLKY.com will continue to update this story as more information becomes available. Story courtesy of WLKY.com Kentucky State Police Post 4 in Elizabethtown worked a single fatality accident just north of the 96 mile marker northbound on I-65 Tuesday morning.
On December 22, 2015 at approximately 9:05 A.M. EDST, Lynnsey Nicole Johnson (21) of Glendale was operating her 2004 Chevrolet northbound on I-65. For unknown reasons she lost control of her vehicle and left the roadway striking a guardrail. After impacting the guardrail the vehicle then spun back into the northbound lanes into the path of a 2016 Kenworth tractor-trailer driven by Gary M. Nixon (55) of Chester Gap, Va. The tractor-trailer struck the passenger vehicle causing it to go across the interstate into the cable barrier. Lynnsey N. Johnson was pronounced dead at the scene by the Hardin Co. Coroner's office. No other injuries were reported. Northbound traffic was delayed with one lane open for several hours while KSP Troopers reconstructed the accident. The accident is still under investigation by Troopers Dewan Kelly and Scott Rafferty. KSP was assisted on the scene by the Hardin Co. SO, KSP Commercial Vehicle Enforcement, Hardin Co. EMS, Central Hardin Fire Dept, Elizabethtown Fire Dept. and the Hardin Co. Coroner's office. Campbellsville Main Street brings back retro ornaments with help from Campbellsville University12/23/2015 Christmas is brighter than ever on Main Street thanks to the restoration of 18 street decorations that have been scattered around the area. The decorations had been used before but had been stored away over 40 years ago.
“We knew they were up there [attic of the Lermin's building] but we had no idea what do with them,” Doug Tucker, Campbellsville Main Street (CMS) president, and owner of Tucker Diamonds and Gold, said. That is until Rob Roberts, CMS Design Committee member and Campbellsville University (CU) director of grounds and landscape development, found a purpose for them. “He brought the old decorations out of storage and took them to the [CU’s] Physical Plant on campus,” Debbie Carter, CMS Design Committee co-chair and CU first lady, said. “Somebody had said something about the city’s old ornaments and light bulbs being stored in Greg Tungate’s [formerly Lerman’s] building, which is now Paint Your Pottery,” Roberts said. “Pam Tennant, Debbie and I decided we should go look at them. Lo and behold there are 18 of them, as well as three of another and 10 of another type.” The 18 ornament decorations looked like church windows, and had old plastic bells and ribbons on them. They also had electric wires around them which used to light up Main Street back when they were first used, hanging on old light poles. Roberts said the next day they were brought over and stripped to see what they had to work with. “That’s when we realized we had something,” he said. “They were too old, too funky and too heavy to go back up [on the light poles] so we thought ‘what could we do?’” He suggested they could stand individually or combined to form a group. “Pictures were shared at the full design committee meeting and the full board meeting and it was decided to come up with a plan to restore them and display them this Christmas season,” Carter said. Roger Beams, a local welder of Campbellsville, met with Roberts and they came up with some ideas, settling on grouping the ornaments into six groups of three. Beams came up with the mechanical side, where the six groups could be broken down individually to 18. Mayor Tony Young was instrumental in the restoration process, according to CMS Vice President Karan Patton, owner of The Green Room Salon and Day Spa. “Campbellsville Main Street approached him about it,” she said, “and he loved the idea of bringing back part of Campbellsville’s history. Roberts said the frames were beautiful but needed to be modernized, so he and his team got to work with new lights, with Carter and Pam Tennant, member of the CMS Design Committee and CU Student Center coordinator, deciding how to decorate them. Bill Brewer, CMS Design Committee member and Campbellsville Park supervisor, was asked for help on where to place them and who had electricity for the ornaments. “It is really nice that the city has the foresight and enthusiasm to take something that is so old and so cool and put them to use,” he said. He said a lot of people will see these frames and remember seeing them in the 1960s hanging on the light poles. Patton mentioned that the ornament decorations were originally put up in 1957 and taken down in 1974. “With the combined efforts of Design Committee members, Rob and some of his staff, the ornaments were brought back to life in the form that is now displayed,” Carter said. “A special thank you goes to Mayor Tony Young for recognizing the vision for these frames and helping financially with the restoration cost.” Another dozen or so other decorations were found in addition to the ornaments, and Roberts said they will work on restoring more for next Christmas. “I love being on this committee for downtown and I love the energy,” he said. “I’d really like to see us do something that puts Campbellsville on the map.” Carter said the Design Committee helps create a safe, inviting environment for shoppers, workers and visitors by taking advantage of the visual opportunities such as storefronts, signs, public spaces, parking areas, street furniture, public art, landscaping, merchandising, window displays and more. By creating an appealing atmosphere, it conveys a positive message about the commercial district and what it has to offer, she said. “The Design Committee will collaborate with what they already do and continue moving forward to make Campbellsville one of the most beautiful and pleasant places in Kentucky to live, work, shop and dine,” Carter said. The refurbished ornament decorations are located throughout Main Street at First United Methodist Church, the Taylor County Justice Center, at the entrance of an alley, the Campbellsville Civic Center, behind the old Taylor County Courthouse and Campbellsville University’s Alumni & Friends Park, Noe Plaza. |
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