The police scanner was lit up with calls for police and EMT over here in Blount Co. It's starting to calm down now, but they were overwhelmed there for a while. Wreckers are still busy, though. None available at the moment. Several reports of abandoned vehicles coming in now.

Lots of wrecks, several calls for head injuries and broken bones from falls on the ice. Curiously, many of the wrecks involved SUVs. I guess people think they are invincible in those things.

Michael Silence has the Knox roundup.

News Sentinel: two fatalities, interstate closed, Knox E-911 Center inundated.