Lexington Roads Still Not Clear/School Still Out ...

 So this is New Circle Road yesterday, the major artery connecting the city - so you can imagine what our lesser roads look like!

Let me explain what that means.

So because we are one of handful of the few cities in America not built around bodies of water, Lexington's roads instead connect much like a wagon wheel, with Lexington in the center. 

The major spokes of the wheel are Nicholasville Road, Harrodsburg Road/Broadway, Richmond Road/Main, Winchester Road, Tates Creek Road, Versailles Road, Leestown Road, and Newtown Road.

Connecting all of these spikes are 2 circle roads (or half circles) , located a few miles from the city center and then on the outskirts of the city- New Circle Road (inner circle) and Man O'War (outer half-circle).

(Man O'War isn't a full circle, it ends at Winchester Road in the Northeast and Versailles Road in the Southwest. It was meant to be one day be a circle, but you'd have to remove horse farms like Calumet to do so, and no one wants to do that, understandably.)

The latter two operate like highways, and in other words, New Circle Road is a major lifeline for the city and it still looks like that, 2 weeks later.

(And as I said, as for the other streets, fuhgettabout it. Our street is still nearly covered in ice.)

For example, this is a picture of Bay Colony Lane, a newer residential suburban street about 2 miles west of Lexington's city center, that someone took yesterday ... 

Sorry, Mayor Linda Gorton - but I gotta say in living here 38 years, I have seen way worse storms that took less time to clean the streets.

I mean, we're always behind Northern states with cleanup, but this was only 6 inches of snow and the worst was ice, but still, never seen a worse cleanup job - kids out of school for 2 weeks and there's still giant strips of ice on Richmond Road?

Nope - not acceptable. 

Governor Beshear agrees, literally using the term" unacceptable" -  because not only have the interstates been cleared for over a week, but Louisville city streets have been clear for over a week as well.

In fact, he says he offered help a week ago, but Mayor Linda Gorton - a Republican - declined help from our Democrat Governor. 

(She has just now accepted his help.)

Also, the city has no idea what streets have been cleaned and what haven't - because they didn't keep track.

I will also say I didn't see much pretreatment and a rare truck during or just after the storm.

Usually, we see trucks pretreating the day before and during, just about every 2 hours - not this time!

It's like they gave up before it even started. 😂

Welp, there goes her re-election (though I don't think she's eligible anyway after 2 terms.)

She's a moderate Republican, so we'd still best be careful what we wish for, because we could always get worse - like a MAGA Republican. 

I hope not - because we're one of 2 (light) blue counties in the state (Fayette - Lexington, Jefferson - Louisville), but ya never know.