As we head into the rainy season, Joel Alexander with City Utilities is still keeping an eye on area lake levels to be at a healthy 86% full.
"We’re going into the spring season feeling better than we were a few days ago I think," Alexander says.
"We have been in a moderate, severe, even some parts of the Ozarks, an extreme drought," Griffin says.
"This heavy rainfall will definitely put a dent in our drought.
It might not totally go away, but definitely the ground is saturated, and we are seeing too much of a good thing."
"Even though we have been in a drought, we have seen too much rain too quickly," explains Griffin.
While flooding is a concern, Griffin says those lakes that CU was keeping an eye on are likely to bounce back.
Those lakes have been so low lately that we are going to bounce those levels back to near normal as we head into the spring," says Griffin.
"It’s certainly nice to have the rain this time of year, you couldn’t have asked for rain to come at a better time.
We are certainly glad it’s not ice."