Caney News

By Martha Baldridge

It is late Sunday evening, and the snow is still falling — it started “in earnest” early this afternoon, after we got home from church. We are so thankful it waited, because we had great Sunday School classes and worship service. We are blessed that our church is located on level ground and right beside the main road, easily accessible in case of bad weather.

We have five inches of snow up here on the hill in Bunion Hollow, and it continues to fall. Our son David has already scraped the road once using his four-wheeler and blade –it is a real service for all those who live here, and I believe he enjoys the challenge! He has always beenan“outdoorsperson.”

We are concerned that the power might go off because of the weight of the snow, but are hoping that it won’t. It will be a real hardship on so many if that should happen! The lights went off briefly a few minutes ago, but came back on. Another reason for giving thanks!

Kyli, six-month-old daughter of Julia (Holbrook) and Kevin Johnson, is having surgery in Lexington tomorrow; we are remembering them in our prayers. Julia is the daughter of Alice Holbrook and went all the way through school (kindergarten through high school) with our youngest daughter Mary; she is a nurse at the Knott County Health and Rehab Center.

Johnny Slone, son of Bethel Lee (Slone) Singleton, had a bad accident last Tuesday while driving a garbage truck. He was very seriously injured and was flown to a Lexington hospital,but is making a miraculous recovery and is home now. We need to keep him in our prayers as he still has some real challenges in the days and weeks to come.

Darrell Slone from Trace on Caney was in the Hazard Hospital, then transferred to Pikeville, critically ill. He is now much improved, and is expected to come home tomorrow. He too needs our prayers. We went to Pikeville to visit him, but he was out of his room having tests done. We did see Ryan and Michelle Gibson and their two sons;the youngest was still very drowsy after having tubes put in both ears.

It is now 9:30 p.m., and our electricity did go off — and is still off. When we found out that the lights were on in the rest of Caney we went down the road to our home below the college – only to see the darkness take over as we were on the bypass around the campus. And then we were surprised to see quite a few flashes of lightning brightening up the whole sky while it continued to snow. An amazing sight! The trees were bent over ev- erywhere under the weight of the snow, but it was scary…

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