CASS COUNTY, Mo. — While rain is usually a good thing, too much of it can mean trouble.
High waters covered most of the back roads in Cass County Tuesday, presenting a problem for those live and work here.
"This rain is hard on everybody out here in the country," Erika Chaney, a resident, said. "This is the second time that a car has gotten stuck and the driver has needed rescue."
Chaney lives up the road from where a driver got stranded earlier Tuesday.
"They think that they’re all fine they hit that water there’s no place for them to turn around it’s just it’s a danger," Chaney said.
It's a problem Chaney says can be prevented.
"The county has done nothing as far as putting in culverts and building up the sides for this water to drain," she said. "The Grand River is right down there and it unfortunately for these farmers ruins their crop."
Lyle Johnson owns 550 acres of land on which he plants soybeans.
"We’re not able to get in to plant any field yet," Johnson said. "It just keeps on it raining and the ground is wet and saturated and about the time it gets about dried it rains again and you just can’t into the fields to do any work."
And it won't be the first or last time he's dealt with the rain's repercussions.
"But the year before in this area, we suffered two floods in less than a month's time, one in July and one in August, and it’s totally wiped out the crops in the bottoms," Johnson said.
