Several Kent streets still had water over the roadway on Tuesday morning, Nov. 16 and a fallen tree closed a small stretch of Frager Road South.<\/p>\n
A fallen cottonwood tree blocked Frager Road South between West Meeker Street and the Old Fishing Hole parking <\/a>lot<\/a>, according to the City Parks Department. The road is expected to remain closed until Wednesday.<\/p>\n “Our Parks team is working closely with Kent Public Works crews to resolve the problem as quickly as possible,” according to a Parks Department statement.<\/p>\n The only road closure as of Tuesday morning was 148th Avenue Southeast between Southeast 249th Street and Southeast 256th <\/a>Street<\/a>, a regular flooding area when the rain pours.<\/p>\n The eastbound curb lane on James Street between Central Avenue and 94th Avenue South also was closed due to flooding.<\/p>\n East George Street between State Avenue North and Woodford Avenue North had been closed but reopened Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n Public Works issued a traffic alert for the following streets with water over the road:<\/p>\n • James Street at State Avenue<\/p>\n • 148th Ave SE & SE 256th<\/p>\n • 28001 block of 144th Ave SE (between SE 279th Place and SE 282nd St)<\/p>\n • SE 223rd Drive between 116th Ave SE to 118th Ave SE<\/p>\n Public Works staff advised drivers to please use caution when driving through standing water. Traffic control will be in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Section of 148th Avenue SE closed due to flooding north of SE 256th Street <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":52864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-52863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52863"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=52863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}