{"id":60377,"date":"2025-10-05T01:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T01:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/60377\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T01:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T01:46:08","slug":"otago-and-southland-flooding-closes-sh90-detours-in-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/60377\/","title":{"rendered":"Otago and Southland flooding closes SH90, detours in place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">MetService has issued an orange heavy rain watch for the headwaters of the Otago lakes and rivers from noon tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Flooding from heavy rain is affecting state highways in Otago and Southland. Photo \/ NZTA\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Flooding from heavy rain is affecting state highways in Otago and Southland. Photo \/ NZTA<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">A heavy rain watch is also in place for the headwaters of the Canterbury lakes and rivers from 3pm tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">NZTA said other highways in the region may be down to one lane or partially blocked. <\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">It said people should take note of signage and take care where there is water on the roads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">On wet, slippery roads, motorists are advised to reduce speeds, increase following distances, watch their visibility and brake carefully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MetService has issued an orange heavy rain watch for the headwaters of the Otago lakes and rivers from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49653,95,28648,5201,18509,12857,49652,19876,71,6559,26755,20384,78,111,43,139,69,9629,2682,43382,6744,6560,49651,15488,13672,102],"class_list":["post-60377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-affecting","tag-and","tag-blocked","tag-closed","tag-closes","tag-completely","tag-detours","tag-flooding","tag-from","tag-heavy","tag-highway","tag-highways","tag-in","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-otago","tag-others","tag-partially","tag-place","tag-rain","tag-sh90","tag-southland","tag-state","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}