She and many others in her office are well aware that, even now, roads in every surrounding county “look better” than Christian’s do. Henderson admitted that a rapidly-changing forecast affected their pre-treatment schedule across the district — which includes 11 counties, and none bigger than Christian. Gilliam, too, plowed over some rumors that have circulated over the last few days, noting that all funding requests of the Christian County Road Department have been met, and sometimes exceeded, in the last few budget cycles, and all county roads “have been plowed” at least once. Furthermore, he said state road officials and county roads officials are “not the same entity,” and operate under different leadership. After temperatures improved Thursday, this upcoming Friday, Saturday and Sunday once again bring arctic weather to the region.