The Salvation Army opened its extreme weather shelter at 7 p.m. Monday in the soup kitchen, staff member Alisa Barton said in a Facebook post.
The extreme weather shelter, or EWE, has several sleeping cots in the kitchen’s dining area. Anyone who needs a place to stay overnight can enter the building at the Eighth Street door. It’s between Clay and Liberty streets.
A mix of snow and ice began falling downtown around 6:30 p.m. and the wind chill dipped below 20 degrees.
The National Weather Service issued a winter weather advisory at 6 p.m. Monday for Christian, Trigg, Todd, Muhlenberg and Calloway counties. Up to 2 inches of snow is expected overnight with wind gusting as high as 30 mph.
The advisory was to remain in effect until midnight.
“Plan on scattered, slippery road conditions,” the NWS report stated.
The wind chill will be around zero at 7 a.m. Tuesday, according to the forecast.
Jennifer P. Brown is co-founder, publisher and editor of Hoptown Chronicle. You can reach her at editor@hoptownchronicle.org. Brown was a reporter and editor at the Kentucky New Era, where she worked for 30 years. She is a co-chair of the national advisory board to the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, governing board past president for the Kentucky Historical Society, and co-founder of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition. She serves on the Hopkinsville History Foundation's board.
