Rain continued to lash Lincoln County in the afternoonWednesday, dumping several more inches on already saturated groundand flooding one home and several city intersections.

A home on Center Street was the only reported damage resultingfrom Wednesday’s rainstorm, according to Clifford Galey, directorof Lincoln County Civil Defense, but he could not estimate howbadly it was damaged.

“I know the water was right up to it, but I don’t know if it gotany water inside,” he said.

An additional 2.5 inches of rain was dumped onto BrookhavenWednesday afternoon, according to the Waste Water Treatment Plant.The city has received nearly 5 inches of rain since Sunday inheavy, if sometimes brief, summer afternoon rains.

Wednesday’s rainfall caused several intersections to closebecause of flooding, Galey said. Closed intersections includedthose at Chickasaw and Court Streets, Chickasaw and Church Streets,Center and Washington Streets and at West Congress Street andSchwem Avenue.

“There were probably some more that had water, but those werethe only ones closed,” Galey said.

The Civil Defense director said he felt flooded streets werealso a problem in the county, but he could not elaborate on wherethose problems may be.

“I’m sure there were also some county roads that were flooded,but I don’t have any reports on that,” he said. “Unfortunately, itlooks like this weather pattern will continue all this week andinto next week, so it’s not going to get any better.”

Galey urged citizens to be patient with city and county crewsstruggling to keep up with the weather. Not only is it hard toclean up the debris after a storm, but wet roads are also hard torepair, he said.

Fortunately, he said, there was some relatively good newsWednesday. He had not received any reports of further power outagesfrom downed power lines or damage from fallen trees.

However, Galey continued to urge citizens to be cautious whentraveling during the next week because it would not take much tobring down more trees.

“People need to be aware that it’s very wet and the ground issaturated,” he said. “It wouldn’t take much of a breeze to bringsome trees down.”