 Waters are currently rising in the East Kentucky area, so much so that schools had to let out early on Friday the 16th. Pike County is now under a flood watch until Saturday the 17th at 6 a.m. Pike County Emergency Management Director Ne Jackson says there is little cause for alarm, but for Pike County residents to remain cautious. We do have a flash flood watch in effect in Pike County. This is in effect until 6 p.m. tomorrow. We have ranged from the northern part of the county, which in Martin County, but in parts of Pike County have received over in the south Williamson Belfrey area has received in the last 24 hours 2.19 inches. Hatfield has received 1.71 inches and 1.4 inches in the. Jackson is insistent about not driving on flooded roads. Rain will continue through most of the overnight hours and driving on wet roads in the dark is a recipe for disaster. As always, turn around, don't drown, don't drive through any flooded roadways. I don't know what the infatuation is with people driving through floodwaters, but those are dangerous situations. You have no idea what roadways look like underneath that water. We're going to catch a little break here for a little while. I don't think we're going to have much, much water here in Pike County. Most of the storm is going to our north. It looks like a lot of it has broken up by the time it gets to us. You know that that's a good thing anytime we can catch gaps in these systems where we catch a little time for water to run off. We don't have any rain going on at this current time. That's always a good thing. Reporting from Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Column.