Flooding strikes rural areas south of Havre

While flood waters have receded in parts of Hill County, parts of South Havre are still being plagued by floods.

Hill County Road 50, off U.S. Highway 87, was washed out, making it impassable and knocking out about 100 feet of the road.

And residents of neighboring Road 70 feared that a bridge there might be washed out.

Cari Frahm, who lives on a ranch just east of the washed out area, said Box Elder Creek overflowed onto the road Thursday night.

Usually the creek is “just a little trickle of a thing,” she said. But water rushed down the creek in recent days, and it overflowed in a major way Thursday.

“It is still gushing out like crazy,” she said Friday afternoon.

To get to work, a neighbor just west of the Frahms will now have to travel down a little-used dirt road to get to Fresno and then back into Havre, she said.

Triangle Telephone fiber optic lines are exposed by the washout, she said.

The flooded area is about two miles from where Sage Creek flows into Box Elder Creek. Sage Creek drains water from the Kremlin-Gildford area, she said.

This is the third time in four years that the area has been flooded, she said.

Last year, the Frahms calculated that they lost about $7,000 to $8,000 in the flooding.

“We put in to FEMA for it,” she said. “We got $1,000.”