The Tennessee Department of Transportation is encouraging Tennesseans to stay off the roads if they can. Many roads, bridges and overpasses are slick due to ice following yesterday’s snow. Crews worked 16-hour shifts over the weekend to keep roads safe. TDOT says it prioritizes interstates first and then moves on to primary state routes, and then the secondary state routes.
A recovery operation is expected to start today for a vehicle that went into the Red River in Clarksville. The vehicle went off Wilma Rudolph Boulevard, hit a utility pole, and crashed into the river early yesterday morning. Roads were already slick at the time of the crash. No information has been released about the driver or possible passengers.
People across Music City and country music fans around the world continue to mourn the loss of Hall of Famer Ralph Emery. The 88-year-old died peacefully at TriStar Centennial Medical Center Saturday morning according to the family. Emery was known as “the dean of country music broadcasters” after beginning his career in radio stations throughout Tennessee and launching the popular Ralph Emery Show in 1972. A statement from the Country Music Hall of Fame says Emery’s impact in expanding country music’s audience is incalculable.
Amateur astronomers in the Nashville area will have an opportunity to view a near-earth asteroid over a mile-wide after sunset Tuesday. The asteroid is roughly two-and-a-half times the size of the Empire State Building in New York City and is considered by NASA to be potentially hazardous. The space rock is expected to fly past the Earth at a distance of one-point-two-million miles, which is closer than recent asteroid fly-bys in May 2019 and December 2021.
