WEATHER,
CAN WflONS

Tuesday
40 32

Morning clouds, partly sunny
afternoon. Chance of freezing
rain after midnight.

Wednesday
45 35

Mostly cloudy with a 40 per-
cent chance of light rain.

Thursday
so 45

Partly cloudy. Chance of
showers Thursday night.

Weather updates can be found
online at the Kemel's Web site,
www.kykernel.com

Cancellations and hours

W.T. Young Library should be
open from 8 am. to 5 pm,
but may be open longer
depending on how well-staffed
it is. Call the library at 257-
0500 for more information.

The Johnson Center was
open from 9 am. to 6 pm
Monday. Hours for Tuesday will
be similar to Monday. Call 257-
3928 for more information.

The UK Athletics Department
canceled Monday's student
basketball ticket lottery. The
tickets for the final three
home games of the men’s bas-
ketball schedule - Mississippi
State, Tennessee and
Vanderbilt - will be resched—
uled for sometime Wednesday.
More information will be avail-
able Tuesday.

Random Acts of llndness
Day was canceled Monday. The
Student Volunteer Center has
not decided for which day the
event will be rescheduled.

The Old School sneak
preview presented by Student
Activities Board is still sched-
uled for Wednesday night at
the Worsham Theater.

Road conditions

The exit ramp at l-64 East to
l-75 North was blocked
Monday afternoon due to ice.
Kentucky State Police are still
advising all people not to
drive, as roads in the Central
and Eastern portion of
Kentucky have been affected
by the storm.

Road conditions as of Monday
afternoon:

l-64: Driving conditions fair
l-75: Driving conditions fair
U.S. 27: Be prepared for very
difficult driving conditions and
look for major road work.

us. 25: No problems reported
Ky 1681: No problems reported
US. 60: No problems reported
Ky 4: Driving conditions fair
Ky 418: Driving conditions fair
Ky 620: No problems reported
Ky 922: No problems reported
Bluegrass Parkway: No prob-
lems reported

Call 1-866-737-3767 for
updated road information

Searching for shelter -—
or warm in the dorm

Help: Some offer
shelter, assistance
to off-campus friends

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ASSISYANT NEWS EDITOR

It‘s not the week to
diss dorm life.

While thousands of
homes in Lexington lack
power and heat. UK's
dorms are warm and
wired.

Some students took
advantage of the ameni-
ties. staying inside on the
rare day off from classes;
others ventured into the
cold to help off-campus
friends recover from the
storm.

Drew Butcher, a math
senior who lives in Bland-
ing 1. was glad to be on
campus.

“It’s so great here be-
cause we have Internet
and everything." Butcher
said. ”We have everything
we need and lots of time to
spend doing whatever we
feel like."

In Lexington and the
surrounding areas, an esti-
mated 56,000 people were
without power Monday.
said Cliff Feltham. com-
munity relations manager
for Kentucky Utilities.

“We are chipping
away at it little by little but
the whole problem could
easily get worse." Feltham
said. “Taking into consid-
eration the extent of dam-

age I’ve seen and our oper- .

ational ability to fix it. it
could easily take a week or
more for everyone to have

 

 

 

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power back.”

Freshman Jesse Wolfram (center) helps his friend Brian Mewcomb (left) prepare to break up a
tree that had fallen on a power line behind Mewcomb's house on Arcadia Park, as John Ballard

Administrators at UK
and LCC canceled classes
Monday and Tuesday be-
cause of fallen trees, pow-
er outages and the cancel-
lation of Lextran bus ser-
vices.

In the meantime, stu-
dents who still had their
power found ways to help
those who didn’t.

Artina Pettigrew, an
integrated strategic com-
munications sophomore
who lives in Fairington
Apartments on Laredo
Drive. was left without
power and decided to stay
at a friend‘s dorm.

“It's a mad house over

looks on. Wolfram and Ballard, who both live in Blandlng Tower, left their dorm to help their

friends off campus. Newcomb's basement was also flooded.

 

dle just to walk outside. I
am now keeping a candle
in my carjust in case."

Animal science fresh~
man Joanna Sabato and
undeclared freshman
Heather Pinocchio both
live in south campus
dorms but spent Monday
helping out friends who
live in houses near cam-
pus.

After eating lunch at
the Commons. they drove
to University Avenue to
bring food to their friends.

there.“ Pettigrew said. “We
have no power. no heat.

nothing. My whole neigh-

borhood was dark the oth-
er night. I had to use a can.

Matt Grocki. an account-

ing senior. and Andy

Adler, a history senior.
“Warm food is so

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Seniors Andy Adler (center) and Matt Grocki laugh in front of
their house on University Avenue with Joanna Sabato, a
South Campus freshman who brought food to the two stu-
dents. Adler and Grocki did not have power most of Monday.

 

 

Campus cleanup extensive,
could last until summer

Havoc: Debris still clogging walkways and roads; Lextran limits service

By Ben Franzinl
STAFF WRITER

Although UK grounds
crews hope to make cam-
pus safe for students by
Wednesday. their cleanup
efforts could last into the
summer. said the direc-
tor of UK's physical plant
division.

“I don‘t even know
where to begin on how
much work we have to
do.“ said the director.
Jack Applegate. “Our pri-
mary goal right now is
making the campus safe
for pedestrians."

Since Saturday's ice
storm. ground crews. tree

crews. contract workers
and volunteers have
worked to clear piles of
ice and mangled tree
limbs from roads and
walkways.

“We had people here
all night. but it’s still
really dangerous."
he said.

Crews cleaned as
many areas as possible.
but the danger of falling
tree limbs kept them from
clearing some spots.

"Until we can make
all walkways safe of ice
and falling branches.
we're trying to keep peo
ple out of these areas."
Applegate said.

 

 

Lextran routes

Lextran, the local bus sys-
tem. will not run its regular
routes until at least Wednesday.

A Lextran official said
buses were running only
emergency routes for hospital
patients and workers

Lextran's maintenance
facility lost power until Mon-
day afternoon, and will run
under emergency operations
until at lead Tuesday.

"We’re hoping to have
full service again by Wednes-
day - if all goes as planned,"
said Steve Rowland, Lextran
executive director.

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Blizzard
buries East

4 feet deep
in some areas

Blizzard: Travelers stranded:
2) deaths blamed on storm

ASSOUAVED PRlSS

The Will'sl him/aid in seven
years shut down much of the
Northeast «in Presidents [lay with
blinding. windhlown snow that
piled tip as much as 1 feet deep and
left more than a quarter of a mil-
lion homes and businesses shiver-
ing without power

At least 21 deaths had been
blamed on the storm sy stem since
it charged out of the Plains during
the weekend. piling snow in the
Ohio Valley. producing mtzdslides
and floods in the southern Ap-
palachians. and making layers of
ice that snapped trees and power
lines.

In Kentucky. tens of thousands
of people faced the prospect of days
without normal lights and heat. es-
pecially in Lexington. which
caught the full fury of an ice storm
that encrusted trees and power
lines and pulled them to the
ground.

“It‘s horrible." said Mark
Caudill. 21. of Lexmgton. who with
his sister and two nephews took
shelter at the Salyation Army in
Lexington. All the trees are down,
It looks like an avalanche Just came
through here and destroyed every
thing."

Thousands more were low on
drinking water. or running out
completely. because of broken wa-
ter mains. inundated storm sewers
or treatment plants suddenly idle
for lack of electricity

On the up side. rivers that
burst out of their banks over the
weekend. flooding some towns in
eastern Kentucky. grudgingly re-
ceded.

Kentucky Utilities Co. reported
upward of 74.000 customers with;
out power throughout the compa-
ny‘s T7county service area. About
60.000 of those were in or around
Lexington. which became a city of
broken trees and downed power
lines,

Airports for Washington, Balti-
more. Philadelphia and New York
largely shut down. stranding thou-
sands of passengers trying to leave
and enter the region. Amtrak‘s
northsouth service was halted be
tween Washington and Richmond.
Va. and regional bus service
stopped in many areas.

The holiday meant there were
few commuters. but police from
Kentucky to Massachusetts pleaded
with motorists to stay home and
some counties banned nonessential
travel so they could clear the roads.

“This is going to be days‘ worth
of cleanup." said Maryland

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Work

Scott Aubu-
chon, a line
worker with
Alltel, repairs
a phone line on
Kalmia Avenue
Monday. The
company
employed four
cherry picker
trucks to
repair downed
lines in
Fayette, Jes-
samine and
Woodford
counties, said
line worker
Mark Morton.

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