UPDATE: 9:01 p.m. Thursday:

Three people were at an emergency shelter at the Brown County YMCA at last count, reported Brown County Emergency Management Agency Director Susan Armstrong. More were there earlier in the evening when they couldn’t get home right away after work, she said.

Talk had begun to spread about a possible breach of Rogers Dam at the top of Jackson Branch Road. Armstrong said there is no imminent concern at this time. A civil engineer checked it more than once this evening and it will be checked again in the morning. Residents have not been forced to evacuate, she said.

Emergency workers are continuing to remind people not to drive over flooded roads. At about 8 p.m., Jackson Township Volunteer Fire Department rescued two people from high water at State Road 45 and Helmsburg School Road. They were taken to Helmsburg Elementary School to be checked out by EMS. Driving through floodwater is especially dangerous at night when you can’t tell how deep the water is or the condition of the road beneath it, said Jackson Fire Assistant Chief September McCabe.

ORIGINAL POST:

Numerous roads were flooded, at least two buildings were damaged and about a half-dozen calls were made for water rescues this afternoon as rain continued to fall in Brown County. After about 12 hours of downpour Wednesday, another severe thunderstorm swept through the area just after lunchtime Thursday. Here’s what’s been going on throughout the county:

Here’s what we heard on the police scanner in about a one-hour period Thursday afternoon:

1:06 p.m. Dispatch receives a report of water flowing into the Helmsburg General Store and storage units.

1:09 p.m. Woman reports a relative walking barefoot through the woods from the golf course to try to get to Whalen Drive (in the State Road 135 South area) because of flooding. She’s concerned for her safety.

1:10 p.m. Officer reports that the 2600 to 3000 blocks of Helmsburg Road are nearly impassible.

1:12 p.m. Officer reports Old 46 from Snyder Road to the fairgrounds is under water.

1:13 p.m. Nineveh Road is starting to flood; it won’t be long before people won’t be able to get out that way, officer warns.

1:16 p.m. A vehicle is reported in the water on Greasy Creek Road somewhere between Bear Wallow Road and the highway garage with no one around it.

1:18 p.m. Nashville Fire is dispatched to a possible rescue situation related to the “woman walking through the woods” call.

1:19 p.m. Nashville firefighter, on the way to that call, reports Van Buren Street flooded in front of the BP station.

1:21 p.m. Dispatch receives a report of a woman in a vehicle on Owl Creek with water starting to come inside.

1:22 p.m. Officer reports Greasy Creek Road is impassible for a vehicle like his.

1:24 p.m. Officer reports Helmsburg Road is down to one lane in places because of washouts.

1:24 p.m. The Crooked Creek area is flooded, says an officer trying to get home to grab some equipment.

1:35 p.m. Nashville Fire is called off the “woman walking through the woods” run.

1:46 p.m. Officers are closing Nineveh Road, which has about a foot of water over it.

1:51 p.m. Officer reports about 2 ½ feet of water at Helmsburg School Road and State Road 45, stretching for about 150 yards.

1:53 p.m. Relatives are trying to get a person out of a house off State Road 46 East that’s been surrounded by water. Two Nashville fire trucks head out, including a ladder truck.

1:57 p.m. Officers are still trying to get to the vehicle that was reportedly in the water on Owl Creek.

1:59 p.m. Caller tells dispatch that Sweetwater Trail is under water in several places; potentially everywhere north of Mt. Moriah is under water.

2:01 p.m. Dispatch receives a report of a person trapped in a vehicle in water on Clay Lick just north of Old 46. (That call is cleared up at about 2:45 p.m.)

2:07 p.m. A wrecker driver reports to police that he didn’t run across the vehicle that’s supposedly on Owl Creek.

2:14 p.m. The person in the water-surrounded house is out and on higher ground.

2:25 p.m. Police and firefighters are called to another water rescue, on Crooked Creek just south of 46. A vehicle is submerged with a person standing on the roof. (That person was rescued by about 2:45 p.m.)

Buses were to be released from the Nashville schools campus at 4 p.m., reported Superintendent Laura Hammack. Students at outlying schools were being held after school until water receded from the roads; however, parents could come get them at any time — if they could get there.

At 4:35 p.m., callers were still reporting high water across State Road 45 on the way to Helmsburg school west of Bean Blossom. State highway had put out a “road closed” sign there, but county highway was out of barricades and high water signs for its roads, an officer reported on radio.

This story will be updated.