{"id":1515544,"date":"2026-06-15T03:09:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1515544"},"modified":"2026-06-15T04:27:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:27:48","slug":"roads-closed-by-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1515544","title":{"rendered":"Roads closed by flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/2026-06-15_030903-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1515545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/2026-06-15_030903-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/2026-06-15_030903.jpg 345w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>ATHENS \u2013 The City of Athens has announced that several roads around the city have been closed by flooding as heavy storms move across East Texas. The flooding comes as the National Weather Service has extended a flash flood warning across much of western Henderson County until 10 p.m. The warning includes all of Athens, Log Cabin, Malakoff, Cross Roads and Cayuga.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease stay off the roads unless travel is necessary. Never drive around barricades or attempt to cross a flooded roadway. Water may be deeper or moving faster than it appears,\u201d the City of Athens said. \u201cTurn around, don\u2019t drown. Please slow down, use caution and give emergency crews room to work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS \u2013 The City of Athens has announced that several roads around the city have been closed by flooding as heavy storms move across East Texas. The flooding comes as the National Weather Service has extended a flash flood warning across much of western Henderson County until 10 p.m. The warning includes all of Athens, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1515544\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Roads closed by flooding<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1515545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 05:54:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1515544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1515546,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515544\/revisions\/1515546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1515545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1515544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1515544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1515544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}