Rain, snow melt drench Greene County
Katie Anderson/Observer-Reporter
Muddy Creek Road in Cumberland Township was closed Friday morning due to high floodwaters.
Katie Anderson/Observer-Reporter
Muddy Creek Road in Cumberland Township was closed Friday morning due to high floodwaters.
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Katie Anderson/Observer-Reporter
Muddy Creek Road in Cumberland Township was closed Friday morning due to high floodwaters.
Greene County took the brunt of heavy rains and snow melt that flooded roads across Southwestern Pennsylvania early Friday.
Muddy Creek Road in Greene was flooded between Route 21 and Ullery Road. Some larger vehicles were able to get through the high water Friday morning, including one tractor-trailer, but the state Department of Transportation officials warned against it.
“Anytime there’s standing water on the roadway, don’t go through it,” PennDOT spokeswoman Valerie Petersen said.
“You don’t how deep it is or how fast it’s moving,” Petersen said. “It’s just way too dangerous. Find another route and go around it. We don’t want anybody getting hurt or worse.”
She said the flooding in Greene County happened at all of the usual trouble areas, including the intersection of Route 21 and Route 18 near West Greene School District. Route 18 in parts of Franklin and Washington townships was closed due to flooding, as well as Route 1014 in Morgan Township and Green Valley Road in Cumberland Township.
Petersen said they were all expected to be reopened by the end of the day.
Weather-related problems were relatively minor in Fayette County.
“We haven’t had anything huge called in,” said Fayette County Emergency Management Agency public information officer Susan Kozak-Griffith.
Griffith said the reports they received included trees down in Perryopolis, Springhill Township, Dunbar Township and Menallen Township.
The runoff prompted the National Weather Service to issue a flood warning for much of Friday in Greene and Fayette counties and southern Washington County.
Small streams and creeks were at or above their banks, the weather service said.
The Monongahela River was expected to crest before the day was out at 24 feet, a depth about four feet below flood stage in Charleroi. The river forecast indicated the river flooding would be minor, with it dropping quickly over the weekend.
The weather did not cause any major problems in Washington County, just some random road closures and flooded basements, a 911 supervisor said.
The Herald-Standard contributed to this report.