Flood Waters Affect A Wide Area Locally

Some Pauld­ing County roads have been closed due to high water, and many folks are busy fill­ing sand­bags to help pro­tect homes from ris­ing water. The state has closed Ohio 66 between Ohio 637 and Ohio 613 near Oak­wood as well as Ohio 500 from the Indi­ana state line to Ohio 111 and Ohio 613 from Ohio 637 to Jack­son Town­ship Road 131. The water also has affected the U.S. 127 detour too, where dri­vers are now directed to turn west on Ohio 114 and then onto 49 before return­ing to U.S. 24. The county has closed sev­eral roads near Payne and Oak­wood, and in other areas as well. The fol­low­ing road­ways in Pauld­ing County were closed due to high water as of early Wednes­day after­noon: County Road I, between Ohio 48 and Ohio 500; County Road 48, between County roads 1 and 17; County Road 17, between Ohio 48 and Ohio 500; County Road 60 in two places (between County roads 187 and 177 and between County Roads 197 and 197); County Road 177 in two places (between County roads 60 and 48 and around County Road 72; County Road 72, between Ohio 49 and County Road 33, and County Road 263, between County roads 205 and 207. High water signs have also been placed on sev­eral county roads includ­ing County roads 173, 24, 123, 1, 123, 12, 177, 132 and 87 and Pauld­ing Town­ship Road 81.