Sometimes it seems like the Fayette County Public Schools and the city of Lexington are trapped in some strange, snow-packed death spiral. They could both pull out and save each other, but over and over, they descend into chaos, facing the white-hot heat of a working parent who just had to cancel a really important presentation.
On Tuesday morning, in some kind of nightmare deja vu, students and teachers were trapped at schools and bus stops because Fayette County Schools waited until the last minute to call a two-hour delay, then called classes off altogether. Meanwhile, morning commuters had already begun their trips, sliding around truly icy, dangerous roads all over town because there was no salt.
As of 11:45 a.m., Lexington police had stopped taking calls for non-injury accidents because they were dealing with more than 150 wrecks since midnight…