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At the most recent Washington County Board of Supervisors meeting, County Engineer Jacob Thorius gave the quarterly report. He spoke about the overtime hours that were put in. One topic covered was the cleanup from the March 31st tornado that hit Washington County. Thorius states, “I got in here, clean up from the March 31st tornado, all that work really happened in April in the next quarter, but. We had to replace about forty signs at the cost of about forty-two hundred dollars. Spent about two hundred and thirty-two hours, man hours out there identifying debris, moving debris, closing roads, cleaning that up. At the cost of about twenty-one thousand dollars, with another nearly forty-three hours in there with overtime. Our overtime was really Friday night when we were out there trying to open roads. That was a cost of about three thousand dollars there.”  Thorius also stated that after the Sunday, May 7th storms, he and his staff spent many hours picking up the blown corn stalks out of the ditches.