Area roads washed out after Thursday night rains

Heavy rains ranging from 1 to 4 inches that fell in mere hours on already-soaked ground in Central Nebraska Thursday night washed out several roadways.

"We're setting out barricades today," said Hall County Public Works Director Casey Sherlock.

Southeast of Doniphan, road closed signs were posted on Shady Bend Road just south of Rosedale Road where the roadway collapsed around a culvert.

A 6-feet-deep chasm ran 12 feet across the road with the remnants of 3.5 inches of rainwater running like a river below.

"There's a pretty good hole here," Sherlock said.

The dark soil of the road bed was exposed with the road gravel laying in mounded heaps between the shoulder of Shady Bend Road and the nearby fields of corn.

Sherlock said a Hall County Sheriff's deputy discovered the road damage early Friday morning.

No injuries were known to have occurred from the road collapse or from vehicles losing control on the mushy roads throughout the southeast end of Hall County, Sherlock said.

No structural or building damage had been reported in nearby Adams County, but 10 roads there were closed Friday due to the rains, officials said.

Adams County Emergency Management Director Loren Uden said rural roads northeast of Hastings and northwest and northeast of Kenesaw were hardest hit.