Flooding has caused evacuations in at least nine Wisconsin counties.

And, at least eleven emergency shelters have been set up statewide.

In Crawford County, the National Guard is helping with a request for cots and food at the North Crawford shelter. Two highways leading into Gays Mills are impassable. Wisconsin Highway 171 off US 14 and 61 is open, however, to the community.

Evacuations occurred in Iowa, Crawford, Sauk, Dane, Winnebago, Racine, Columbia, Juneau and Vernon counties. In Vernon County, Ontario reported nearly ten inches of rain, and Viroqua in excess of eight inches of rain.

The Red Cross is helping with shelters at North Crawford High School and Spring Green High School. Other shelters are open in La Farge, Ontario, Viroqua, Reedsburg, Richland Center, Elroy, Madison, Avoca and Racine.

Wisconsin Emergency Management is also looking for some help from the Department of Corrections.

It's asked that inmate work crews be sent to West Baraboo to help fill sandbags.