As often happens during heavy rain in Kent, city Public Works crews have closed a portion of East James Street as well as 76th Avenue South, due to flooding from Mill Creek.<\/p>\n
East James Street is closed between Central Avenue North and 94th Avenue <\/a>South<\/a>, according to a 2 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 5 update by Public Works. 76th Avenue South is closed between South 212th Street and South 228th <\/a>Street<\/a>.<\/p>\n Other traffic impacts include water over the roadway at:<\/p>\n • West James Street between Washington Ave. N to Lincoln Ave., under the 167 overpass<\/p>\n • 124th Avenue SE from SE Kent Kangley Road to SE 270th St.<\/p>\n • 81st Ave S. at S. 196th St.<\/p>\n Public Works staff advises drivers to please avoid driving through standing water; alternate routes advised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Portions of East James Street; 76th Avenue South closed <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":66476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-66475","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\/66475"}],"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=66475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66475"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=66475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}