{"id":55050,"date":"2025-11-16T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T00:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/55050\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T00:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T00:00:20","slug":"storm-causes-flooding-and-roadway-closures-in-kern-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/55050\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm causes flooding and roadway closures in Kern County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bakersfield, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX)  \u2014 Heavy rainfall causes several Kern County roads to flood and close on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>So far, some of those roads include:<\/p>\n<p>Tehachapi Willow Springs -due to floodingFraizer Mountain Park Rd &#8211; due to floodingCameran Canyon Road &#8211;  due to mudslides and floodingRedbank Road &#8211; due to large sinkholes<\/p>\n<p>Kern County Public Works is advising drivers not to go around signs and cross a flooded road signs.<\/p>\n<p>For an updated list of road closures, click <a href=\"https:\/\/kernpublicworks.com\/services\/transportation\/road-maintenance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The California Department of Transportation is also working to reopen highways closed due to flooding. They were able to reopen Highway 58 at Mt Vernon Road.<\/p>\n<p>However, the following roadways are currently closed due to flooding:<\/p>\n<p> State Route 33 from Lokern Rd to SR 46 State Route 166 from SR 33\/Maricopa Hwy to SR 99Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Drivers are being asked to choose an alternate route until the flooding clears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bakersfield, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Heavy rainfall causes several Kern County roads to flood and close on Saturday. So&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-55050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}