Portions of the town of Burns remained under water Tuesday morning following a storm that hit the area about 10 p.m. Monday night.

"According to the gauge at my house, we received 3 to 4 inches of rain last night between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m." mayor Phil Oakes told town residents in a Tuesday morning e-mail message. "Needless to say it was a bit more than most roads could handle."

Oakes went on to describe the damage and a small plus to the storms power.

Three to four feet of running water was seen moving through the cemetery as of 6 a.m. Tuesday.

"The road through the cemetery washed out," he explained. "The culvert is still there but is exposed. The road will need to be rebuilt once the water goes down, but for now its a river. Co-op road is flooded, and we have numerous washouts around town."

The road to the Panhandle Co-op was completely under water overnight. As of 3 p.m. Tuesday, Oakes said the water on the co-op road had barely drained enough to see a little dirt on it.

"Any more rain will put that road under water again," he predicted.

East of the new school building is a large standing body of water.

"They have a lot of road closures around that area as well, with both the elementary school and the new stuff they are doing for the high school," Oakes said. "It is making it difficult for some folks to get to the school."

He assured residents town maintenance employees would be out as soon as possible to address the problem areas. Oakes added several intersections were underwater, but general cleanup was beginning.

Trying to find the sunny side of the storm Oakes said, "We no longer need to worry about cleaning out the tumbleweeds near the cemetery (as the new river there cleared them out)."

He added the open pit for the Wyoming Street sewer improvements did not collapse despite all the rain. On a lighter note he said "if it would have been snow, it would have been about 48 inches of it."

He asked Burns residents for patience as town employees work to correct the damage

"I don’t know about you all, but that was about as big a storm as I have seen in a long time," he said.