 Appalachian Wireless now has new forward pay pricing where you can pay up front and get the data and features you desire. Five gigabytes of data, just $39.99, unlimited, just $79.99, better service, bigger savings. That's today's Appalachian Wireless. Repairs to a road in Pike County could take a while due to utility issues. Kentucky Route 1499 in Feds Creek, also known as North Lavisa Road, collapsed two weeks ago. The collapse caused the road to close and forced motorists to take an hour-long detour toward Kemper and Pikeville. Feds Creek, slide 1499, is a cylindrical failure. It's common. It occurs especially in really wet periods of time and unfortunately this one just happened in the middle of a roadway. Access to Kentucky 1499 is restricted from Biggs Bridge to the Feds Creek Bridge. Traffic cannot get through the work zone. Both lanes and the shoulder of the road on both sides collapsed after prolonged rainfall. This February was probably the wettest February on record and so it just became saturated, it slipped and it fell down. The contractor making repairs to the pavement collapsed as the work could take up to a month. It has a 10-inch water line in the ditch line and then there's a fiber optic cable and utility poles in the lower end of the slide so it was going to take longer and cost more to relocate them while we work so we're trying to work around them. So we have to take a really kind of what I call Rubik's Cube approach where we take out some, put some back. The contractor and officials at Highway District 12 understand how long and time-consuming the detour is but thanked motorists for their patience during the road repair. In Feds Creek, Shelby Porter, EKB News.