Trees were uprooted and brought down all over the county after multiple lines of storms dropped heavy rain on Brown County all weekend.

On Monday morning, State Road 135 North/Van Buren Street was temporarily closed and three more trees were taken down by Stinson Tree Service as safety and liability precautions.

Commissioner Diana Biddle said the a near-miss Friday night during cleanup from the first round of storms was the “final straw.”

A young person in that volunteer cleanup crew came within six inches of being struck by a falling piece of concrete that had been placed inside one of the sycamores. Biddle said decades ago, it was an acceptable practice to fill a hole in a tree with concrete.

“The horrifying thought is if that had happened next weekend during the parade (this Saturday), that hunk of concrete would have killed somebody,” she said.

Police officers, volunteer firefighters, highway department workers and others responded to 28 calls about downed trees and 12 calls about utility lines down between Friday and Sunday. The county was under flash-flood advisories all weekend.

Brown County Emergency Management Agency Director Susan Armstrong said she had had a report of one family displaced on Mt. Liberty Road because of a tree that came through the roof.

An emergency shelter opened Friday night at the Brown County YMCA since there were about 1,700 Brown Countians without power at the time. Armstrong said several people called about it, but no one stayed overnight; it also was available as a place to shower and charge phones.

A cabin at Brown County State Park also had a tree fall on the roof and park staff were out dealing with downed trees throughout the weekend, according to emergency radio traffic.

Besides the ones being cut Monday morning, six trees came down in downtown Nashville due to wind and soaking rain.

A maple tree by the courthouse war memorial also was expected to be cut, Biddle said. The storm revealed the top of the tree is hollow, she said.

“At this point, I think, it’s prudent for us to look at the long-term liability of leaving those big trees up,” she said.

About five or six other trees in the courthouse area will remain untouched and at least four new trees will be planted, Biddle said.