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April 2011 rainfall totals compiled by Dr. Stuart Foster, state climatologist with Kentucky Mesonet Statewide, precipitation averaged 11.88 inches for the month. This total exceeded the previous record of 7.61 inches in 1972 by more than 4 inches...

While we have plenty of flood water in the Owensboro-Daviess County area there are some areas of Kentucky that are much worse off. Smithland, Calvert City and Paducah all have flooding challenges.

  COUNTY ROADS CLOSED ROADS OPEN   DUE TO HIGHWATER BUT WITH HIGHWATER       Caldwell KY 1272                 MP 2-3 KY 126                  MP 4-5   KY 1592                 MP 2-3 KY 126                  MP 7-8     KY 128                  MP 2-3     KY 1627                MP 7-8       Christian KY 345                   MP 6-7 US 41A                 MP 9-10   KY 345                   MP 9-10 KY 10

Photo By: Joe Lowe More than a weeks worth of rain has driven some Daviess Countians from their homes. You only have to drive to the south side of Towne Square Mall on Hwy 431 to see the destruction flood waters are causing.