Rain, flooding to persist through Friday, could clear Sunday

MONROE — The Evergreen Fairgrounds opened its stall doors to horses and goats flooded out of their pastures Thursday by relentless rain.

This week’s weather on top of a wet December and January overwhelmed saturated soils, causing widespread road closures and urban flooding.

“This additional rain has nowhere to go into the ground,” National Weather Service meteorologist Logan Johnson said.

Closing in on two weeks of heavy precipitation, the extreme weather has taken its toll on infrastructure.

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