According to National Weather Service, Logan County had a varying of precipitation from three inches of mostly snow in the north end of the county and an inch or so of ice, sleet and snow in the so in south.
The forecast for today calls for more placid weather (near 40 degrees), and all of the snow should be gone by tonight.
The snow, which was mixed on and off with ice, made for hazardous driving Wednesday and Thursday mornings. According to the Logan County Sheriff's Department there were 24 accidents in a day-and-a-half stretch, with five of the accidents resulting in injuries. There were at least two deaths in the area, one on Highway 79 just south of Guthrie and one in Warren County.
Perhaps the worst local accident was when two Elkton teen-agers were injured when their vehicle slid into a Coca-Cola truck on U.S. 79.
Main state roads were clear by as early as Thursday morning and, according to County Judge/Executive Johnny Guion, the main county thoroughfares were clear as well.
The snow on the road prompted several closings. Both city and county schools, the county Library and even Russellville City Hall were shut down by the slick roads.
Among the biggest casualties of the weather were the American Cancer Society's Love Lights a Tree program Thursday night and the Toys for Tots Ham Breakfast Thursday morning.
The ham breakfast has been rescheduled for next Thursday, Dec. 12 while Love Lights a Tree will be that night.
Several ball games were called off, but there's been no word yet about whether they'll be played later.
With weather forecasters predicting nasty things to come, shoppers were out in force Tuesday and Wednesday to buy what one grocery store manager called "the big three."
"They wanted milk, bread and eggs," Kim Nolan, manager of the Lewisburg IGA, said. "We were busy and had a lot of shoppers on Wednesday. I guess they thought the weather was going to stay bad."
With forecasters predicting ice and more snow for Wednesday night and early Thursday, Arlene Hoover of Hoover's Valu-Plus in Adairville said there was such a mad dash on bread that her store temporarily ran out.
"We ran out, but thankfully we had another truckload coming in," she said.
The de-icer and anti-freeze sales jumped for local businesses as well.
"People kind of wait until the bad weather to get that kind of stuff," Mike Baldwin of NAPA Auto Parts in Russellville said.
With the snow kind of wet and good for sledding, Wal-Mart manager Jeff Adams said sled sales were up.
"We usually have a hard time doing that, but people were coming in and getting them," he said.
Adams also said his store had several shoppers looking for de-icer and antifreeze, and he even sold out of some types of de-icer.
Pete Hall, of Hall Towing Service, said he didn't have as many calls as he normally would in a first snow, but he did say he noticed that some people still were driving too fast.
"Just because you have a 4-wheel drive truck doesn't mean you can drive fast in this kind of weather," he said. "People need to take their time in this or it will cause all kinds of problems."
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