INDIANAPOLIS — A wave of storms moved across the state on Friday, dumping heavy rain on many of the central Indiana counties hit by last weekend’s flooding.
The greatest threat was expected in the evening and into the night when up to 3 inches of rain was forecast in some places and the National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch for much of central and southern Indiana.
Authorities in Owen County, northeast of Bloomington, were concerned about a dam on a 10-acre lake outside Spencer and had evacuated a few homes in the rural area, said Jack White, the county’s emergency management director.
Numerous roads remain closed in the county, and White said it would not take much rain to cause more trouble in many of the areas where about 600 homes and businesses were damaged last weekend.
No new flooding was reported in southwestern Indiana, where the crest of floodwaters moving downstream on the White River from the weekend storm was nearing the wider Wabash River.
Sandbagging has been under way for days at the Gibson County town of Hazelton along the White River about 40 miles north of Evansville.
The river was forecast to crest there Friday and begin falling, according to the weather service. The Wabash River continued to rise downstream at the town of New Harmony, but was not forecast to reach the major flood stage.
Storms could drop anywhere from 1 to 3 inches of rain in central Indiana, including the swath of counties from Terre Haute to the Franklin and Columbus areas that had the worst flooding last weekend, said Phil Gray of the weather service.
“A half-inch is not going to cause any problems, but if any particular spot that was previously flooded did receive several inches then it could cause some flooding problems,” Gray said.
Gov. Mitch Daniels planned to visit flood-damaged areas in Greene County and Terre Haute on Friday, and then meet at the state’s disaster assistance center in Martinsville with R. David Paulison, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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