A small landslide near Ebey’s Landing left one lane of the roadway blocked with dirt and debris before Island County road workers cleared the way Monday morning.

The workers were called to the site on Hill Road in Coupeville shortly after 7:30 a.m. and spent the next two hours scooping up dirt with heavy machinery and trucking it away as the rain continued to pour.

Some of the dirt was pushed back to form a natural buffer in an effort to prevent dirt from further entering the road.

Connie Bowers, assistant county engineer, called the incident a “small surficial slide,” consisting of surface material breaking free and sliding forward largely intact down the hill.

The road was re-opened and county workers will continue to monitor the hillside, Bowers said, but didn’t expect more significant sliding there.

“This type of surficial slide, usually when it’s done, it’s done,” Bowers said.

Mimicking the rest of the Puget Sound, Central Whidbey is experiencing an extremely wet winter. More than 10 inches of rain fell during the months of November and December, according to readings from Washington State University’s AgWeatherNet station in Coupeville.

Those two months accounted for nearly half the rain that fell in Coupeville during all of 2015 when 23.42 inches were recorded.

From the beginning of November through the end of February, 14.98 inches of rain have been recorded at the Coupeville weather station.

Seattle is experiencing its wettest rainy season on record.

“For us, it’s never dried out this winter,” said Wilbur Purdue, who runs Prairie Bottom Farm on Ebey’s Prairie. “We’ve never not had standing water on our farm.”