Rain inundates area roads, yards

TIMES photographs by Annette Beard Low-water bridges were damaged and were unsafe to cross during the weekend. The county has been declared a disaster by Gov. Asa Hutchinson. County Road Department employees were working on the roads Sunday.
TIMES photographs by Annette Beard Low-water bridges were damaged and were unsafe to cross during the weekend. The county has been declared a disaster by Gov. Asa Hutchinson. County Road Department employees were working on the roads Sunday.

TIMES photographs by Annette Beard

Low-water bridges were damaged and were unsafe to cross during the weekend. The county has been declared a disaster by Gov. Asa Hutchinson. County Road Department employees were working on the roads Sunday.

Rainfall

4.09” Saturday until midnight

1.98” midnight - 8:30 a.m. Sunday

1.90” 8:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. Sunday

2.04” at 10 p.m. Sunday

.72 ” at 8 a.m. Monday

10.73” Total as measured in Pea Ridge

TIMES photograph by Annette Beard

Culverts installed this summer on Miser Road just north of Lee Town Road broke loose during this weekend's floods.

Lots on the north side of Summit Meadows, south of Hazelton Road, were under water, as was this fire hydrant.

TIMES photograph by Annette Beard

Red clay ran into the roadway off the developing Fox Run subdivision. There were no silt fences in place to stanch the erosion.

Areas of Givens Subdivision looked more like a pond than yards and streets Sunday after torrential rains pelted the area.

TIMES photograph by Annette Beard

Water ran through yards carrying debris in Maple Glen subdivision.

TIMES photograph by Annette Beard

Residents of Klaus Lane were evacuated Saturday night after the waters from a nearby creek overflowed the road and driveways just north of East Pickens Road.

Little Sugar Creek overflowed its banks, flooding fields and nearing the bottom of the bridge on Arkansas Highway 72, one of the major routes into Pea Ridge.

TIMES photograph by Annette Beard

Roads along Sugar Creek were damaged by floods and rushing waters this weekend.

General News on 12/30/2015