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County facing ‘repeat’ of hazardous weather this week




This photo taken with a drone on Saturday, Jan. 14, shows how the Robertson County Courthouse was blanketed with snow last week. MARK WOODLAND, www.woodlandphoto.com, instagram: jmwoodlandphoto 

This photo taken with a drone on Saturday, Jan. 14, shows how the Robertson County Courthouse was blanketed with snow last week. MARK WOODLAND, www.woodlandphoto.com, instagram: jmwoodlandphoto 

With a winter weather advisory in effect for Monday and Tuesday of this week, Robertson County is headed for an overall repeat of ice and snow-covered roads, coupled with low temperatures found all over middle Tennessee towards the close of last week.

A light snow is expected to impact travel across middle Tennessee, according to the National Weather Service, as a cold-front moves through the region.

Snow is expected to average around an inch in middle Tennessee, with a possibility of two inches in some areas. Temperatures will plummet into the teens, keeping wind chills in the single digits late Monday night through Tuesday.

On Monday morning, Robertson County Emergency Management Agency Director R.L. Douglas said the best place to be is off the roads, but if you have to get out, exercise precaution.

“I think it’s going to be a repeat, just not nearly as bad,” Douglas said. “It is just going to elevate the road conditions into more hazardous conditions than what we’re dealing with this morning.”

Douglas said a home on Whispering Oaks Drive in Cross Plains was destroyed by fire in the early morning hours of Sunday, Jan. 14.

A woman inside the home was able to make it out with no injuries, he said. The cause of the blaze is still under investigation.

The road conditions in the county vary, with the worst conditions on the side roads, according to Douglas.

“People really need to be careful,” Douglas said. “The main roads are in great shape. But on the side roads, what’s not covered has patches of ice. So, as you’re moving down the road and thinking it’s dry, sometimes you’ll hit a sheet of ice and that’s when you’re in trouble.”

The weekend sunshine helped clear some roads, Douglas said, but not all of the roads received a direct hit from the warm sun.

“There are still roads in the back roads of Orlinda, Cross Plains, basically all over the county, in Ridgetop, Coopertown, Adams, that doesn’t get a lot of sunlight,” Douglas said. “Those roads look just like they did Friday afternoon and Friday night. There’s been no melting of those roads at all.”

There will be patches of ice on even some of the cleared roads for the next couple of days, Douglas said, with conditions remaining hazardous through the week as the snow moves in Monday night and Tuesday.

“It would be best for people to stay in if possible, but if not, then use caution,” Douglas said. “TDOT is doing a wonderful job wearing out and working the state roads, but they’re not doing anything to the county roads.”

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