Video: Monroe County Road Collapses Due to Floods

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MONROE COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI) — Over the last 3 days, 120 roads have been covered with water in Monroe County.

With the amount of rain the area has received, Emergency Management Director, Bunky Gosa says we are lucky that no one has died.

Homestead Road is normally a little smoother, no this isn’t the scene of an earthquake, but where too much water rushed in.

“When all the rain came, the water found it’s way around the culverts, one of them actually caved in,” says Monroe County Road Manager, Sonny Clay.

Homestead may have seen the worst of it, but water over roads created issues for motorists across the county.

“We did 5 rescues between Monroe County Search and Rescue Team, Mississippi State Department Wildlife and Fisheries,” says Gosa.

“People kept going around our barricades, we put barricades up, road flooded, folks kept going around it. Sheriff’s office called yesterday asked if we’d come out and do something,” says Clay.

And when these barricades proved not to be enough the county came out here and put these piles of gravel to make sure no one else got trapped.

David Hall watched those rescues from his home.

“Plenty water, something we haven’t seen, like i said since 72. And it just amazes me, that it’s got this high again,” he says.

Clay says he hopes to have Homestead Road fixed by early next week.