Heavy rains have caused low-lying roads to flood and at least two vehicles stalled in high water.
The Salem Water Plant recorded an additional 87-hundredths of an inch of rain in the 24 hours ending at seven Tuesday morning for a two-day total of 1.82 inches of rain. The Centralia Water Treatment Plant had an additional 42-hundredths of an inch of rain in the 24 hours ending at seven Tuesday morning for a two-day total of 1.35 inches.
All the low-lying roads in the Crooked Creek and Skillet Fork Bottoms were reported impassable on Tuesday morning with water levels beginning to fall. The Brick Hill Road below the Raccoon Lake Dam was also impassable.
The Marion County Sheriff’s Department reported early Tuesday morning to Robin Road where a car had flooded out in the Crooked Creek Bottoms. A family member was eventually able to get the driver out, but the car remained stranded as of Tuesday morning. Another car drove into flood waters on Brick Hill Road and became stranded.
