{"id":55558,"date":"2022-02-28T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T22:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/rain-in-kent-causes-street-closures-water-over-roadways\/"},"modified":"2022-02-28T17:25:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T01:25:15","slug":"rain-in-kent-causes-street-closures-water-over-roadways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/rain-in-kent-causes-street-closures-water-over-roadways\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain in Kent causes street closures, water over roadways | Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

The constant rain has caused the closure of several Kent streets, curb-lane closures on other roads and water over the roadway that drivers need to be careful when driving through.<\/p>\n

All closures are due to the heavy rain that started Sunday, Feb. 27 and has continued Monday, Feb. 28.<\/p>\n

Here’s the latest, as of 5:20 p.m. Feb. 28, from the City of Kent Public Works Department:<\/p>\n

Road closures<\/strong><\/p>\n

• James St is closed between Central Ave N and 94th Ave S<\/p>\n

• E George St is closed at Central Ave N<\/p>\n

• 148th Ave SE between SE 256th St and SE 249th St<\/p>\n

• 81st Ave S between S 196th St and S 198th St<\/p>\n

Traffic advisory<\/strong><\/p>\n

• Eastbound curb lane closure on S 180th St between 80th Ave S and E Valley Hwy<\/p>\n

• Eastbound curb lane closure of S 196th St between 80th Ave S and 84th Ave S<\/p>\n

• Eastbound curb lanes closed on E James St between Central Ave N and Woodford Ave N<\/p>\n

• West and Eastbound curb lanes closed on James St between Washington Ave N and Lincoln Ave N under the Highway 167 overpass<\/p>\n

Water over roadway<\/strong><\/p>\n

• SE 256th St and 148th Ave SE<\/p>\n

• 141st Ave SE and SE 276th St<\/p>\n

• SE 223rd Dr between 116th Ave SE and 120th Ave SE<\/p>\n

• 144th Ave SE between SE 279th Pl and SE 282nd St<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Portions of James Street; East George Street; 81st Avenue South; 148th Avenue SE closed Monday <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":55559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-55558","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\/55558"}],"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=55558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55558"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=55558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}