By Pat Culverhouse

Heavy rains and subsequent flooding across the parish has resulted in the closure of some parish roads due to high water. Several trees were reported down, but parish police jury crews had cleared roads early Wednesday.

Roads reportedly closed included Roberson Rd., Bass Rd., Wiley Rd., Newsom Rd. and Pistol Thomas Rd. Parish crews and Sheriff’s deputies are continuing to check for damage and high water.

Webster Parish Sheriff Jason Parker urged motorists to exercise caution when approaching low-lying areas, especially in the evening hours when visibility is limited. 

“We’ve been coordinating with parish crews and DOTD in areas where trees and power lines were reported down,” Parker said. “Things are being handled as quickly as possible, but we would ask drivers to be extremely cautions.”

Parker said high water and tree damage was not limited to one area of the parish but appeared to be widespread.

Minden Mayor Nick Cox said local power outages were not a big issue.

“We had a few outages last night (Tuesday),” he said. “But they were short and sweet.”

Some Optimum cable customers still had outages as of 5 p.m. Wednesday.