UPDATE: 10 p.m.Crittenden County Emergency Management officials are in Dycusburg next to the rapidly rising Cumberland River. They have set up a command post and are advising residence in low-lying areas to evacuate higher ground.
Judge-Executive Fred Brown said Corps of Engineers officials have told him the river will cease rising in a couple of hours, but local officials are taking every precaution just just in case it doesn't.
We will be posting updates from Dycusburg as information becomes available.
Judge Brown said that backwater has covered many roads along tributaries of the Cumberland River. Motorists should use extreme caution and never try to cross water over a roadway. The river is expected to rise throughout the night, which could impeded school bus routes in the morning.
Pictured at right is Crittenden County Deputy Don Perry watching the river rise along painted orange slashes officials scrawled onto a street in downtown Dycusburg to measure the rising waters.
