LOGAN COUNTY, Okla ( KFOR ) — With record rainfall, roads in Logan County have turned into a muddy mess.
As of Friday morning, nearly 40 roads throughout district 1, which is the lower southwestern part of the county, were either washed out or damaged.
“With holes that are going into the culverts and into the drainage area, the sides of the roads are washed out just due to the amount of water that had to drain down them,” said Shawn Pierce, deputy director with the Logan County Emergency Management.
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Logan County is now under a disaster declaration.
“Where we can go in and try to get some better equipment, better money from the state to come in and try to fix these roads,” said Pierce.
In the meantime, Pierce encourages drivers to find alternative routes.
“Turn around, don’t drown, that’s 100 percent what we got going on right now because we don’t know what’s under that water, we don’t know if the roads are there or not,” said Pierce.