Be prepared.

• Position: STATELINE - Brief article

Kentucky's preparation for a big earthquake paid off big time in late January, not because a quake hit, but because an ice storm did. The ice storm was so bad it killed 30 people, left a record 769,000 people without electricity, and sent thousands to shelters. "It's near the worst-case scenario," Brigadier General John Heltzel, the head of the state's Division of Emergency Management, told the Associated Press. Heltzel used a statewide earthquake training last year as a rescue blueprint for...