A picture is worth a thousand words

2009-05-20 / Front Page


County engineer Paul Couts described the damage to CR200 (the Crooked Road to Flora/Delphi) at the commissioner's meeting Monday, but words cannot do justice to the devastation done to the road during the Friday night deluge. Storms traveled through the county dropping, in some places, more than 5 inches of new water on already saturated ground. The water found its way through the ground, washing away soil and undercutting the road that left the asphalt with no support. Photo provided County engineer Paul Couts described the damage to CR200 (the Crooked Road to Flora/Delphi) at the commissioner's meeting Monday, but words cannot do justice to the devastation done to the road during the Friday night deluge. Storms traveled through the county dropping, in some places, more than 5 inches of new water on already saturated ground. The water found its way through the ground, washing away soil and undercutting the road that left the asphalt with no support. Photo provided

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