Wed Feb 08 2012
Burdell Swain looked out her window Saturday afternoon to a surprising discovery: a few teenagers were clearing snow from her driveways and front porch.
“I didn’t even know they were here,” said the 88-year-old Indian Hills resident. “They didn’t knock on the door or anything. They just came by and cleared off the front porch and the driveway. Then they did the same for the back driveway.”
It didn’t take the Good Samaritans long to shovel Swain’s Pueblo Trail driveways. They began at 1 p.m., she said.
Swain watched the teens for a while, and then went to her kitchen to find something to give them to eat. When she came back, they were gone.
“They left before I could thank them.”
While Swain doesn’t know the teens, she suspects they were friends of her son, Jim, who’s in a wheelchair and living with her while his home is remodeled.
“I have a feeling it was a group from my son’s church,” she said.
Swain wants a chance to thank the crew who cleared her driveways. Without them, she would’ve left the driveways blanketed in snow, she said.
“I just want to say thank you. It proves there are a lot of good teenagers in the world. A lot of people say bad things about teenagers now, but there are still good ones. They proved it.”
According to weather reports, about 4 inches of snow fell on Frankfort.
Local emergency personnel reported no major accidents Saturday.
Statewide, however, a few accidents slowed traffic near Elizabethtown, Bowling Green and Lexington, highway officials said.
Traffic was snarled on parts of Interstate 65 Saturday morning because of wrecks involving tractor-trailers near Bowling Green and Elizabethtown, officials said.
A tractor-trailer overturned on Interstate 75 near Lexington, causing another backup along northbound lanes, officials said.
State emergency officials said Saturday morning there were no reported power outages from the storm and no counties had declared emergencies.
The heaviest snowfall was in the mountainous regions of eastern Kentucky. The weather service received reports of 16 inches of snow on Black Mountain.
Elsewhere, Louisville received 4 inches, while 4 to 6 inches were reported in the Elizabethtown, Lexington and Bowling Green areas, the weather service said.
Snowfall totals of 4 to 6 inches were commonplace across Kentucky, and drifts of nearly a foot or more were reported as winds whipped the powdery white stuff.
The state Transportation Cabinet had all its maintenance crews and snowplow contractors on alert as the storm approached – about 1,400 people in all, said cabinet spokesman Chuck Wolfe.
Before the snow fell, roads were treated with brine to reduce bonding of the snow to pavement and make plowing more effective.
Still, the snowfall was so heavy in many areas that it was difficult for the plows to keep up, Wolfe said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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