{"id":309220,"date":"2026-07-29T21:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/309220\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T21:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:57:14","slug":"heavy-rain-floods-roads-in-albany-area-prompting-state-of-emergency-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/309220\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rain floods roads in Albany area, prompting state of emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy rain floods roads in Albany area, prompting state of emergency<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynbc5.com\/news-team\/3afa302b-5e9f-4bc3-943b-9a930326c0fb\" aria-label=\"Michael Cusanelli profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3afa302b-5e9f-4bc3-943b-9a930326c0fb_1780510546.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Michael Cusanelli\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>RENSSELAER COUNTY, N.Y. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Heavy rain has caused flooding in Albany and surrounding areas today, closing roads and prompting warnings from officials.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The New York State Department of Transportation is warning travelers to never drive through a flooded roadway.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">In Guilderland, video from Wednesday shows a family escaping a car stranded in waist-deep water. A man carried a child to safety before returning to help an older passenger out of the vehicle. Torrential downpours submerged parts of Route 20 in the area.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Flooding has also caused damage to several roads across Rensselaer County. A state of emergency has been issued there, and motorists are being urged to avoid unnecessary travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heavy rain floods roads in Albany area, prompting state of emergency RENSSELAER COUNTY, N.Y. \u2014 Heavy rain has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4241,116953,116955,1583,32,14236,900,97191,116954,9,11,10,49,93250,51,50,3039,15932,530,1080,116956,1115,13372,23266],"class_list":["post-309220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-albany","tag-albany-area","tag-area-today","tag-child","tag-emergency","tag-flooding","tag-floods","tag-guilderland","tag-heavy-rain-flood-road","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-department","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-part","tag-route","tag-state","tag-state-of-emergency","tag-torrential-downpour","tag-video","tag-warning","tag-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}