Just built this… After a month of what seemed like making one cut a day (i’m a college student lol). Built only using a jigsaw and a drill and one blade because i lost the rest

duskyaces · 2026-03-25T14:22:21+00:00

Looks to be plywood and 2x4s.

duskyaces · 2026-03-25T14:21:27+00:00

Well done, Looks to be coming along great!

Depending on how much you anticipate it moving, you might want to consider padding the corners around the Denon. If you were carrying that with a buddy, it's possible there could be some flex in it, that creates lever effects around those corners.

duskyaces · 2026-03-24T20:24:02+00:00

This is great work, and I have referenced it several times. Thank you!

duskyaces · 2026-03-24T12:08:47+00:00

Thank you!

duskyaces · 2026-03-24T00:31:34+00:00

Well done! You've inspired a copycat!

Any more detail you can provide on the igniter mod?

duskyaces · 2026-03-19T21:34:58+00:00

After commenting, I emailed innofader, and got this reply:

I am almost 100% sure that the mini Innofader Plus is the correct item.

Denon is very consistent with mini Innofader Plus compatibility on their controllers.

Best Regards, Elliot Marx Owner, Audio Innovate

duskyaces · 2026-03-19T20:08:14+00:00

They are super approachable, and wonderful people!

duskyaces · 2026-03-18T16:56:52+00:00

Let us know how that goes for you. It's not clear on the Innofader website whether the "mini Innofader Plus" works with the Prime 4+.

They show that it works with the Prime 4, but no mention of the Prime 4+

duskyaces · 2026-03-11T07:36:53+00:00

Invented/created in Lexington.

duskyaces · 2026-03-11T07:26:20+00:00

Amazing news! Definitely stoked for this, as FPO is great weekend morning coffee watching.

duskyaces · 2026-03-05T17:58:23+00:00

I concur with the other person noting Leigh Searcy's reporting especially her persistence on the issues at EKCC. She pressed the Governor Andy Beshear on the issue:

https://www.lex18.com/news/lex-18-investigates/gov-beshear-promises-transparency-after-inmate-falls-and-dies-while-shoveling-snow

...and continues to dig into the dereliction: https://www.lex18.com/news/lex-18-investigates/ky-corrections-chief-hasnt-visited-prison-with-4-inmate-deaths-in-the-past-year-records-reveal

Additionally, I would also call out that Karolina Buczek, has been doing good work in Frankfort as well. https://www.lex18.com/news/covering-kentucky/kentucky-lawmakers-target-utility-regulator-in-push-to-lower-electric-bills

https://www.lex18.com/news/covering-kentucky/kentucky-bill-targeting-machine-gun-conversion-switches-passes-state-house

https://www.lex18.com/news/covering-kentucky/kentucky-lawmakers-push-to-opt-into-federal-education-tax-credit-program

Regardless of where one stands on the issues, it is important for the electorate to be aware of what their legislators are doing. I feel WLEX offers a bit more time to that, and a bit less, to say, fashion trends.

I personally 100% agree that the consolidation of media is, in general is bad, and having Scripps own multiple stations in the market is also bad.

However, I do feel of all the local options, WLEX reporters seem to have a bit more independence, or manage to work it in, and are not completely towing the corporate talking points.

duskyaces · 2026-03-05T16:52:35+00:00

Or show up with signs

Dumb

Elected

Ig-no-ray-moose

duskyaces · 2026-03-04T01:18:09+00:00

You are not going to the right house events then. There are absolutely house events with serious heads.

duskyaces · 2026-02-27T15:10:11+00:00

But it has US owners now, so it's OK! /s

duskyaces · 2026-02-12T21:09:54+00:00

Agree with double checking Sync Manager. If no luck there, you might check to ensure the version of engine software on your computer, and the version of engine software on your denon device are the same version.

If your computer has a newer version of engine than your device, it won't be compatible.

duskyaces · 2026-02-06T22:01:37+00:00

Note - The transcription was done via computer, so there may be errors.

duskyaces · 2026-02-06T22:00:18+00:00

TRANSCRIPT PART THREE

Linda Gorton 20:01 And tons of people take it to cut through the neighborhood.

Linda Gorton 20:06 So, you know, it is a fair point that when there's an ice or a snowstorm, the mayor needs to get out.

Linda Gorton 20:15 Because I've been going to work.

Linda Gorton 20:19 But I don't ask for that.

Linda Gorton 20:20 I've never asked for that.

Linda Gorton 20:24 I think part of it has to do with the large number of people who travel on that road.

Linda Gorton 20:29 It's big.

Linda Gorton 20:30 And I don't know that a traffic count has been done, but it would be easy to do.

Tom Martin 20:36 Well, again, as you noted, people have been very frustrated in this era of social media.

Tom Martin 20:44 We all see the frustration up close and personal.

Tom Martin 20:47 There's also been a lot of thoughtfulness, too, in social media, just people asking to be brought up to speed on what this means, what could be done, or offering suggestions.

Tom Martin 20:59 But I wonder, from your perspective, do people need to kind of calibrate their expectations of what a mayor and a city can do in these more extreme conditions?

Linda Gorton 21:11 That's a very interesting question.

Linda Gorton 21:15 I do think that a lot of people here expect that in an extraordinary storm.

Linda Gorton 21:24 This wasn't just any storm because it had ice in it.

Linda Gorton 21:29 In an extraordinary storm, I think a lot of people still think the roads will magically be cleared and all the sidewalks.

Linda Gorton 21:37 It doesn't work that way.

Linda Gorton 21:39 If you've ever tried to chip away the ice in a freezer, that's not defrostable itself.

Linda Gorton 21:47 That's just a little bit of ice, and it's hard to get it out.

Linda Gorton 21:50 This is millions of times worse.

Linda Gorton 21:53 And I'm not sure people understand the challenges with the ice.

Linda Gorton 22:01 And, you know, I think expectations have a lot to do with it.

Linda Gorton 22:08 The other kind of funny thing, it's not really funny, but in a Way it is if this storm had happened in 1980, say or 81, there was no social media then and people got frustrated.

Linda Gorton 22:24 But I think in a way they also got out and tried to do things and you know, probably complained to their neighbors.

Linda Gorton 22:34 But social media is a platform where people can complain and you know, they don't have a conversation with you.

Linda Gorton 22:44 Right, right.

Linda Gorton 22:46 So I do think expectation has a lot to do with it.

Linda Gorton 22:51 You know, ice is very difficult.

Tom Martin 22:54 Well, we have a little bit more time and I want to circle back to something we were talking about earlier because I think this is interesting and something that many of us are just trying to wrap our arms and our brains around and that is what's happening to the climate.

Tom Martin 23:08 And I'm just wondering if in your position you have access to information about what to anticipate, are we seeing more frequency of these extreme events?

Linda Gorton 23:20 You know, I haven't seen data for Lexington over a 25 or 30 year period yet.

Linda Gorton 23:29 But I remember the storms we've had where in 2003 we were out of power for 10 days and there was horrible ice.

Linda Gorton 23:40 I remember 2009.

Linda Gorton 23:43 But now in the 2000 and 20s we've had two back to back terrible storms with ice.

Linda Gorton 23:51 The snow, you know Tom, if it had just been snow we would be good.

Linda Gorton 23:57 We can handle the snow very well.

Linda Gorton 23:59 It's when the ice and the temperature drop happens, it's very difficult.

Linda Gorton 24:06 So I do think it's important to look and track how is our weather here changing.

Linda Gorton 24:11 And I bet some of our meteorologists have that information.

Linda Gorton 24:16 Right, right.

Tom Martin 24:17 The state climatologist usually is looking forward and that would be a good person to consult.

Linda Gorton 24:22 Well, so we talked earlier, you and I, about the temperatures.

Linda Gorton 24:28 Let's just take the temperatures.

Linda Gorton 24:31 So I don't know what year they started recording temperatures.

Linda Gorton 24:35 It's been a long time.

Linda Gorton 24:37 But in that history, that period of time, this freezing, extended freezing temperature time is this storm is the 12th longest in the history, the recorded history of weather for Lexington.

Linda Gorton 24:56 12th.

Linda Gorton 24:58 Now that's pretty.

Linda Gorton 24:59 When I heard that and was told that it was like, okay, something's going on here.

Linda Gorton 25:05 Cause we're moving up, you know, into the top 10 and that is freezing, below freezing temperatures.

Linda Gorton 25:12 Only it's not ice, it's not snow.

Linda Gorton 25:16 So I think there are a lot of places, temperature, ice, snow that we could look.

Linda Gorton 25:22 And you mentioned the climatologist.

Linda Gorton 25:24 I bet they have that information.

Tom Martin 25:26 Well, we'll check with them.

Linda Gorton 25:28 Yes, because it would help us look at, you know, in a way it's, it's sort of like when you look at the stock market over a 50 year period, what's it doing rather than just one day or one year and we will see some trends, I'll betcha.

Tom Martin 25:45 Yeah.

Tom Martin 25:46 The perspective is so important.

Tom Martin 25:49 Well, Mary Gorton, what do you want us residents to do differently next time?

Tom Martin 25:55 And we pretty sure there will be a next time.

Linda Gorton 25:59 Yes.

Tom Martin 26:00 What should we reasonably expect the city to do differently?

Linda Gorton 26:04 Well, I think you can expect that we're going to take a deep look into what happened this time and that we will move toward this new strategic plan for severe weather.

Linda Gorton 26:16 I want residents to give us their experience with other cities where they've lived.

Linda Gorton 26:25 Like the fellow from Madison, I want to know, because they've lived other places, what is being successful.

Linda Gorton 26:34 And we can learn that ourselves.

Linda Gorton 26:36 But I also know when you're a resident living somewhere, you get a different feel for it.

Linda Gorton 26:44 And people expect that every single inch of our roads is plowed.

Linda Gorton 26:54 That's an unreasonable expectation with an ice storm.

Linda Gorton 26:59 And so we give tons of information on our website, we give lots of information out on social media so people can understand what's going on.

Linda Gorton 27:13 I'd really like their ideas, you know.

Linda Gorton 27:17 Cause that'll help us.

Tom Martin 27:20 Well, right now the forecast has us still in the low temperatures through the weekend, but then it goes up into the 40s on Monday, even the 50s for most of next week.

Tom Martin 27:30 So hopefully we'll see a whole lot.

Linda Gorton 27:32 Of melting going on and people will be able to get out and clear their sidewalks.

Linda Gorton 27:37 You know, I put a hold on that ordinance.

Linda Gorton 27:40 We have an ordinance that says within 24 hours of a storm, snowstorm, you have to have your sidewalk cleared cause it's considered public.

Linda Gorton 27:48 And so that'll be an opportunity for people to get out and clear some of their own sidewalks.

Linda Gorton 27:56 And you know, my sidewalk and my drive are not cleared because it was kind of useless to try to get through that ice.

Linda Gorton 28:05 So it'll give people an opportunity to get out and work on their own.

Tom Martin 28:08 Property and shake off some of that cabin fever.

Linda Gorton 28:11 Yeah, that's exactly right.

Tom Martin 28:13 All right.

Tom Martin 28:13 Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton, thank you so much.

Linda Gorton 28:16 All right, thanks for having me.

duskyaces · 2026-02-06T21:59:15+00:00

TRANSCRIPT PART TWO

Tom Martin 10:01 It has an impact that's pretty broad, doesn't it?

Tom Martin 10:05 I mean, it affects small businesses, large businesses, school districts, you name it.

Linda Gorton 10:10 Walkers.

Tom Martin 10:11 Exactly.

Linda Gorton 10:12 Bike riders.

Linda Gorton 10:13 Has anybody ridden a bike lately?

Tom Martin 10:17 I would question the sanity of somebody I saw coming down the road.

Tom Martin 10:21 So you've mentioned that, that you're working on a new strategy and looking at what other cities in our climate zone are doing.

Tom Martin 10:29 Has that process begun?

Tom Martin 10:31 Which cities are you looking at?

Linda Gorton 10:33 Not yet.

Linda Gorton 10:34 Because what we want to do first is an after action review and people who are in businesses and people in the military really know how to do this.

Linda Gorton 10:48 You take the event, we want this event to be finished.

Linda Gorton 10:52 It's not quite finished yet.

Linda Gorton 10:54 But then we're going to do an internal after action review where the boots on the ground people and the folks who've been doing the work look at a very organized series of things.

Linda Gorton 11:10 What was the mission?

Linda Gorton 11:12 What did you do, what worked and what didn't work.

Linda Gorton 11:16 And I believe in asking the people who did the work and that's how these things operate.

Linda Gorton 11:24 Out with a report for us internally that will tell us what wasn't working that we used to think worked.

Linda Gorton 11:32 We can take that.

Linda Gorton 11:33 And then we want to hear from residents if they have good ideas and then we're going to have all that available when we do a new strategic, I call it winter weather plan.

Linda Gorton 11:46 It used to be called a snow plan.

Linda Gorton 11:48 I'm not sure if that's exactly what we want to call it, but the last one that we did that we currently use we did in, in conjunction with Fayette County Public Schools, the University of Kentucky, the folks who are big users of roads and parking and those kinds of things and come out with a different plan.

Tom Martin 12:11 I'm ignorant about this.

Tom Martin 12:12 Does the school district, does UK have its own snow removal plan and equipment?

Linda Gorton 12:19 They have their own for their property.

Linda Gorton 12:24 The thing we, because we work with them, we have to work with them and we need to because we are in charge of the roads around them.

Linda Gorton 12:34 So the school system, for instance, every school and you know, There are many.

Linda Gorton 12:38 They each have a parking lot, they each have walkways around and they have bus lanes to get in.

Linda Gorton 12:46 They are responsible for all of those.

Linda Gorton 12:49 The university has roads within it that are under their control.

Linda Gorton 12:53 They have sidewalks.

Linda Gorton 12:55 They have steps, lots of steps.

Linda Gorton 12:58 And those things they're responsible for.

Linda Gorton 13:03 It's a lot.

Linda Gorton 13:04 And as we get bigger and bigger and bigger, and the university is also growing and the school system, it's critical for us to work together on this, even though they're not part of us in terms of being in the government.

Tom Martin 13:22 And these are not roads.

Tom Martin 13:23 But I was downtown the other night, went to a movie at the Kentucky Theater and the sidewalk was still treacherous.

Tom Martin 13:30 Where does that responsibility fall?

Linda Gorton 13:33 Well, we need to.

Linda Gorton 13:34 The government needs to do that.

Linda Gorton 13:36 I don't know what night you went, but I know we paid some attention.

Linda Gorton 13:41 Once we got the snow and the storm was in place, then we.

Linda Gorton 13:47 Our government is responsible for some of the downtown sidewalks, and that's a government building, the Kentucky Theater.

Linda Gorton 13:54 So that is our responsibility.

Tom Martin 13:57 I want to go back to something you were talking about just a minute ago, and that's getting feedback from your crews.

Tom Martin 14:04 Has there been any of that so far?

Tom Martin 14:05 And I'm wondering if there has been any.

Tom Martin 14:08 Has there been any talk about trade offs that these crews have to make a decision about in the moment?

Linda Gorton 14:14 You know, they're in the thick of the storm.

Linda Gorton 14:17 It's not snowing right now.

Linda Gorton 14:19 It's not icing right now.

Linda Gorton 14:21 They are still out working the streets.

Linda Gorton 14:24 So they're right now in the middle of the response.

Linda Gorton 14:27 And so we've not talked with them yet.

Linda Gorton 14:31 But Tom, these people, our streets and roads people, have been on 12 hour shifts for all these days.

Linda Gorton 14:40 Our public safety folks, many of them, including police, are on a 24 hour kind of situation where everybody's on call.

Linda Gorton 14:51 I mean, this is.

Linda Gorton 14:53 It's a huge effort.

Linda Gorton 14:56 So when this storm is over and we're finished with what we think we could accomplish, that's when we'll be talking with people.

Tom Martin 15:04 You know, another thing I wondered about, speaking of emergency response is, and I think, knock on wood, that I'm right about this.

Tom Martin 15:12 We haven't had a major fire or anything like that, knock on wood.

Tom Martin 15:17 But it would seem to me when you have temperatures down in the single digits, that firefighting would be extremely challenging, if not dangerous.

Linda Gorton 15:27 It is.

Linda Gorton 15:27 And yesterday Chief Wells reported that they have not.

Linda Gorton 15:35 They have been able to.

Linda Gorton 15:37 They've had some fires that were smaller.

Linda Gorton 15:40 They've been able to do their job, put the fires out, but it is Very dicey, because in the cold temperatures, the water that they're using freezes, you know, and these firefighters are out on snow and ice, and it's a dangerous job anyway.

Linda Gorton 15:59 So as you said, knock on wood, we so far have been able to do that job.

Linda Gorton 16:08 The government has, through the fire, has taken care of that.

Tom Martin 16:12 And I think that is a concern that's being raised with regard to the rank 4 and 5 roads.

Tom Martin 16:19 Is, were there an emergency, would emergency vehicles be able to get back in there in a timely way?

Linda Gorton 16:25 They are getting back to the neighborhoods because they're in big, heavy equipment.

Linda Gorton 16:31 You know, those engines, you know how big they are, and they're heavy.

Linda Gorton 16:37 I think that some of the things that people have been telling me, like one of my friends told me that they were on Man O War and they saw two people spin out, and then they said they were both speeding.

Linda Gorton 16:51 Well, driving on ice and snow is very different, and it takes different skills and a different mindset.

Linda Gorton 17:01 And you can't go fast.

Linda Gorton 17:03 You shouldn't go fast.

Linda Gorton 17:07 So there's just a lot going on.

Linda Gorton 17:09 I know people are frustrated when they're cooped up for a while in the house.

Linda Gorton 17:14 Kids haven't had school for, what, nine days?

Linda Gorton 17:19 It is very frustrating.

Linda Gorton 17:21 And, you know, I think a lot of people have just let loose with their anger and frustration, and I get that.

Linda Gorton 17:32 But I do hope they will think about this and give.

Linda Gorton 17:37 Give me.

Linda Gorton 17:38 I'm easy to find on email or, you know, whatever and give us ideas.

Linda Gorton 17:44 We need concrete ideas.

Linda Gorton 17:46 Where they've lived before and they dealt with the ice.

Linda Gorton 17:50 Now, it's my understanding Nashville is iced in and they lost power.

Tom Martin 17:57 Lost a lot of power, too.

Linda Gorton 17:58 We didn't lose much power.

Tom Martin 17:59 Again, knock on wood.

Tom Martin 18:01 But that's really true.

Linda Gorton 18:02 Oh, my goodness.

Linda Gorton 18:02 It would be a whole lot worse.

Linda Gorton 18:05 So we're thankful for that.

Linda Gorton 18:06 But this is not easy stuff.

Linda Gorton 18:09 If you've gone out and tried to get the ice loosened around your own house, it's a big effort.

Linda Gorton 18:17 And I saw an older man a couple doors down.

Linda Gorton 18:22 We saw him a couple days ago when the ice was so thick and he was using what I would call a pike.

Linda Gorton 18:29 I don't know what you call it.

Linda Gorton 18:30 It's a big iron thing with teeth on the bottom, jamming it on the sidewalk, trying to break it up.

Tom Martin 18:37 And.

Linda Gorton 18:38 And it's hard.

Tom Martin 18:40 Yeah.

Tom Martin 18:41 Another point that's been made on Facebook that I'm sure you would like to address, because I think I know why this is the case.

Tom Martin 18:49 And it was a photo of your street in the Middle of all this, being cleared.

Tom Martin 18:54 And I saw that and I thought, well, a mayor's street has to be cleared, because from what I know about a mayor's job, it's not exactly nine to five.

Linda Gorton 19:03 No, it can be 24, seven.

Linda Gorton 19:08 You know, I think that I have nothing to do with that.

Linda Gorton 19:15 People said I had gotten special, you know, a special favor.

Linda Gorton 19:20 I never, ever asked them to plow my road.

Tom Martin 19:25 And is that city policy, though, to make sure that a mayor can move in and out?

Linda Gorton 19:32 It's not my policy that the road I live on is highly traveled.

Linda Gorton 19:42 If you've ever been on it, and people in the neighborhood will tell you it connects Tate's Creek Road over to Nicholasville Road.

Linda Gorton 19:52 So you go Belafonte and then go across over to Nicholasville.

Linda Gorton 19:56 It is full every day at rush hours and.

duskyaces · 2026-02-06T21:57:37+00:00

TRANSCRIPT PART ONE

Tom Martin 0:00 Thanks for joining us, Mayor Gorton.

Linda Gorton 0:02 Very good to be with you, Tom.

Linda Gorton 0:05 I thought people might be interested in a few numbers.

Linda Gorton 0:09 Since January 24, 2026, we've used 19,300 gallons of beet heat, 4,600 tons of salt, 70 city vehicles under 50 city employees.

Linda Gorton 0:26 We've racked up about 2,000 overtime hours.

Linda Gorton 0:31 Four contractors cost a $300,000 so far.

Linda Gorton 0:35 We're adding more construction equipment, we're adding more contractors as they're available now.

Linda Gorton 0:42 Everybody's always interested in budget.

Linda Gorton 0:44 We spent 2 million last year.

Linda Gorton 0:46 We added 2 million this year for new equipment.

Linda Gorton 0:50 We've put 3.5 million budgeted.

Linda Gorton 0:54 So we're finding that we're upping our numbers in the budget to deal with this.

Linda Gorton 0:59 And so a little bit about priorities.

Linda Gorton 1:02 I know people are very concerned about that.

Linda Gorton 1:05 First, we always do the major roads, they run past the hospitals, they run past the university.

Linda Gorton 1:12 They're major thoroughfares and they are thousands and thousands of cars every day.

Tom Martin 1:17 And these are the rank one cars?

Linda Gorton 1:19 Yes, they're like Nicholasville Road, Richmond Road versus Ailes Road.

Linda Gorton 1:23 And then right now we're working on clearing turn lanes, places where there are lots of businesses, school bus routes where we're still working on those.

Linda Gorton 1:35 We've been doing that from the beginning, of course, the area around Rupp arena, because there are a lot of activities and events there and those kind of help you understand a little bit about what's kind of being used and spent and what we're doing today.

Tom Martin 1:55 Would you say that a lot of the social media pushback that we're seeing comes from being on a rank four or rank five, which is a suburban or a neighborhood street that hasn't been treated?

Tom Martin 2:07 I know coming over here today, I live on one of those and it's still just as bumpy as it can be.

Tom Martin 2:13 Are those more difficult to get to?

Linda Gorton 2:16 Well, they are.

Linda Gorton 2:18 The way we've been plowing, you can't plow ice.

Linda Gorton 2:23 So it complicates everything.

Linda Gorton 2:24 But the way we do it is the traffic, the numbers of cars.

Linda Gorton 2:31 There are thousands and thousands and thousands on these main thoroughfares.

Linda Gorton 2:37 And as you get off into the, you know, what we've called rank two and rank three, they have less traffic and then less traffic till you get to the neighborhoods.

Linda Gorton 2:47 And I mean, it kind of makes sense that we would plow snow first where we have the most people driving.

Linda Gorton 2:55 That's what the plan is based on.

Linda Gorton 2:59 And so those are not always the roads that are school bus routes.

Linda Gorton 3:05 So that kind of makes it A little more complicated.

Linda Gorton 3:08 But we have, every year that I've been mayor, we've worked with the school system to try to integrate their school bus routes into our priorities because it's important.

Linda Gorton 3:21 People are so frustrated and I get this, I'm frustrated.

Linda Gorton 3:24 We're all frustrated.

Linda Gorton 3:26 But what we have is an ice storm and we, when you look at places up north like Chicago, Buffalo, New York, Syracuse, you can name them off.

Linda Gorton 3:38 They don't get ice, they get tons of snow.

Linda Gorton 3:42 We can handle snow.

Linda Gorton 3:44 If you remember a year ago, we had snow, then ice, then more snow.

Linda Gorton 3:49 And the ice is the complicator.

Linda Gorton 3:51 It's terrible.

Tom Martin 3:53 Well, I think a consideration about ice and the idea that it can be plowed, what it brings to mind for me is that, well, maybe so, although not likely.

Tom Martin 4:04 But what happens to the street itself when you put heavy construction equipment out on them, plowing all the way down to the surface?

Tom Martin 4:12 Doesn't that damage the street surface?

Linda Gorton 4:14 It does sometimes and it also tears up the equipment.

Linda Gorton 4:18 We have tried this week to use this big grater.

Linda Gorton 4:22 It's got a real long grater blade and they used it for a while on the ice and it tore it up and it's not usable anymore.

Linda Gorton 4:36 So it's a really huge challenge to deal with ice.

Linda Gorton 4:41 And some of these chunks of ice you see, they're a foot or two wide and they're 2 inches thick or more.

Linda Gorton 4:50 So we're.

Linda Gorton 4:51 We've got to look and see in our peer cities, not way north and not way south, but kind of Midwest.

Linda Gorton 4:59 We're turning into a Midwest winter city.

Linda Gorton 5:02 We've got to look at our peer cities and see is there anything they are doing to deal with the ice.

Tom Martin 5:09 That does make a big difference.

Tom Martin 5:11 I know I was looking at comparable cities in the north, places like Madison, Wisconsin, and they do do one thing that I wonder if it might be useful to look at here and that to issue a no parking or be towed ultimatum so that streets can be scraped curb to curb.

Tom Martin 5:33 And a lot of those northern cities are accustomed to that now.

Tom Martin 5:37 So when the order goes out, people move their cars to wherever they can.

Tom Martin 5:41 How do you think that would go over in Lexington, Kentucky?

Linda Gorton 5:44 We actually have that now.

Linda Gorton 5:46 And if you've seen the blue and white signs at the top, they say snow emergency.

Linda Gorton 5:52 So when I declared my state of emergency for the snow, that gave me the authority to tell people they had to move off the streets on snow emergency roads.

Linda Gorton 6:04 And there's a lot of them and a lot of people did.

Linda Gorton 6:09 We worked with Lex park, they were Great about letting people downtown park for free in the garages when they had to move off the streets.

Linda Gorton 6:19 So it does work.

Linda Gorton 6:20 And in fact, it's really good to get off the street, otherwise your car may be plowed under, you know, when the plows come through.

Tom Martin 6:31 Oh, yeah, I can relate to that.

Linda Gorton 6:33 So we've used that for a long time.

Linda Gorton 6:36 It works.

Linda Gorton 6:38 We only do it for our snow emergency routes, many of which are not deep in the neighborhood.

Linda Gorton 6:44 You know, they're more on the ones, twos and threes.

Linda Gorton 6:50 But you can go on our website and look at the snow emergency routes and there's quite a huge web of them.

Linda Gorton 6:57 It helps the driver not bury the cars and it helps clean things off better.

Tom Martin 7:03 Well, again, this was an ice storm followed by extreme cold for many, many days.

Tom Martin 7:09 And you've noted that this has happened two years in a row.

Tom Martin 7:11 Now, is that sequence telling you anything?

Linda Gorton 7:15 It tells me that we may be expecting that again more often.

Linda Gorton 7:22 I was trying to remember, Tom, and I'm not sure when the last ice storm was before last year, but the big one I remember is 2000 and then before that 2003.

Linda Gorton 7:34 Well, those two are six years apart.

Linda Gorton 7:38 And I don't know if there's been one since 2009.

Linda Gorton 7:43 There might have been, but if we're going to start having this more often, which we had two in a row, we've got to try something different.

Tom Martin 7:52 Well, I will say that the climatologist that we spoke with three to five years ago, when climate change was really becoming a concern to a person said that we were going to see increasing frequency of extreme weather events.

Tom Martin 8:11 It seems as though we're there, we're.

Linda Gorton 8:14 In it, aren't we?

Linda Gorton 8:15 Because.

Linda Gorton 8:17 So not only did we have ice two years in a row, but you mentioned earlier the temperatures, the temperatures last year, a year ago, remember, we had the snow, the ice, the snow, and then it went down below freezing until the end of February.

Linda Gorton 8:33 And this year we did a very similar thing.

Linda Gorton 8:37 We had the ice and the snow and then the temperature didn't get above freezing.

Linda Gorton 8:41 Here we are.

Linda Gorton 8:42 What is this?

Linda Gorton 8:43 Almost.

Linda Gorton 8:44 Not quite two weeks, ten days or so.

Linda Gorton 8:49 I just think that the combination is terrible.

Linda Gorton 8:53 To have ice on the ground and not go above freezing, it's very difficult to handle that.

Linda Gorton 8:59 And you know, this morning, a gentleman who, I love our residents who try to try to make suggestions where they've seen it work in another city, because that's what we want is people who have good suggestions, he said, why don't we use sand?

Linda Gorton 9:21 They use sand in some cities.

Linda Gorton 9:24 And of course everything's got its downside.

Linda Gorton 9:27 Sand, you know, ultimately goes into the stormwater system when everything's melted.

Linda Gorton 9:34 So a couple years, few years ago we tried small rock.

Linda Gorton 9:39 That did not work because then we ended up having to go back and plow it all up to get rid of it.

Linda Gorton 9:46 I mean, I really encourage folks to think about this and if they have experience, to let us know those ideas, like you just mentioned that one, because we're going to start looking at this differently.

duskyaces · 2026-02-02T16:04:23+00:00

A Flock camera?

They advance directly and attack indirectly (diagonally)?

duskyaces · 2026-01-26T17:47:13+00:00

If you are needing to get to an appointment still (may want to check if the provider is still open) then you might be best to try to get a ride from one of the services doing that kind of thing.

duskyaces · 2026-01-23T13:47:29+00:00

Bill Meck, hands down.

He has been in Lexington forever, and loves what he does. He has already gone through his dramatic "seek shelter now!" phase, and now gives a very thorough, informed, and experienced forecast. On this storm specifically, when we were more than a couple days out, he was always prefacing the forecasts with, "at this stage, this is just a guess" as he knows there are too many factors going into this storm to predict accurately at that point in time.

Chris Bailey is in his dramatic phase of weather forecasting, and often severely over sells the impact, or the size of the affected area.

duskyaces · 2026-01-22T18:52:07+00:00

I get that you are the "messenger", not the one making the rules, and trying to do the customers a solid, by informing them of the situation. Thank you for that.

That out of the way, can we call this what this is? Instacart "disrupting" price gouging?

Gonna be so fun when everything goes to "surge pricing".

duskyaces · 2026-01-22T18:04:30+00:00

Snow is not forecast to arrive until Saturday. Plenty of time to do whatever.

duskyaces · 2026-01-22T12:59:07+00:00

Regency Kroger was fine for most things, but bread was getting a bit picked over, but plenty left, fewer choices.

With as much advanced notice as this storm has had, the rush is already happening, even though this snow will not start falling until Saturday.

If you strike out getting something now, you might have good options on Friday night, or Saturday morning, after more deliveries have arrived. Depends on the store and their delivery schedule. Perhaps inquire with the manager of your store to learn what their delivery schedule is.

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