Woods County commissioners declare Woods County to be a disaster area
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May 30, 2018
After northern Woods County received up to 11 inches (David Strawn's place) of rain last Thursday, considerable damage was done to roads, tin-horns and bridges. Commissioner David Hamil, who oversees that part of the county, said if you climbed up on the Capron elevator, it looked like a single lake all the way to the Kansas border.
One 24-foot bridge was washed out, and 14 miles of roads were damaged and closed. Sixteen tin-horns (metal tunnels that carry water under a road or train tracks) were lost.
Tuesday morning, the Woods County commissioners approved a Disaster Emergency Proclamation t...
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