According to the dispatchers at the Bee County Sheriff’s Office, portions of FM 1349, FM 796, FM 797 and FM 888 were shut off, as well as much of FM 1349.
In fact, FM 1349 between U.S. Highway 59 and FM 797 was still closed to traffic at 9 a.m. Thursday. However, vehicles were getting through on that highway even though the signs were still in place saying the road was closed to traffic.
Residents reported finding from 2.5 to three inches in their rain gauges Thursday morning.
Some parts of the county were reporting rainfall at nearly four inches.
In Beeville, a number areas were closed to traffic in low-lying areas, including at the Poesta Creek on South Tyler Street.
Ronald “Buddy” Hardy, president of the Beeville Volunteer Fire Department, said no one had to be rescued from stranded vehicles Wednesday night.
One city-owned front end loader did get stuck. “But that was an in-house problem,” Hardy said.
City Street Superintendent Albert Bridge said recent improvements on the Calhoun drainage ditch worked well this week, keeping water from getting inside homes on West Powell Street.
Weather experts are predicting some clearing in the days ahead but more rain also is in the forecast for part of next week.
“Let it rain,” farmer Matt Huie said Thursday after attending a meeting of the Beeville Independent School District’s board of trustees.
Huie said extended cold weather so far this winter will likely delay plans to plant crops this month. Planting usually starts around Valentine’s Day but Huie said it will probably begin about a week later.
He was not concerned about muddy fiends possibly delaying planting. He said it’s more fun for a farmer to try to figure out how to plant in the mud than to put seed in dry fields.
Recent rains are expected to help this year’s crops, but Huie said rainfall needs to continue for this to be a successful year for farmers.
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