Rain and snow melt have caused the ground to be saturated across the KCII listening area. Washington County Engineer Jacob Thorius is advising people to be careful on gravel roads, “If you have to travel on gravel roads slow down, that’s the first thing. The faster you go the more you splash that stuff out and make more of a mess. Try to limit any heavy loads. Wait until next week, hopefully it dries out and it’ll start to get better. We can dump rock, but if you dump rock in mud it just becomes muddy rock, it doesn’t do anything. It’s not a benefit, we did that in a couple spots and I had some people thank me. I said, ‘You’re not going to be thanking me in a couple of days.’ I spoke with them last night and they said, ‘You were right.'” Many area school districts had busses operating on hard surface routes only this week due to the conditions. If you come across a flooded road, turn around, don’t drown. Find an alternate route.