{"id":336229,"date":"2026-09-02T19:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T19:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336229\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T19:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T19:30:15","slug":"state-fairgrounds-closed-as-flooding-prompts-exit-only-gates-and-entry-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336229\/","title":{"rendered":"State Fairgrounds closed as flooding prompts exit-only gates and entry ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GEDDES, N.Y. \u2014 The Great New York State Fairgrounds are closed due to flooding.<\/p>\n<p>The fair sent out the alert around 11:36 a.m. on Wednesday as storms causing heavy rain moved through the area.<\/p>\n<p>The fair said all of its gates are now exit-only. People are told not to enter the fairgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone inside the fairgrounds who is not able to exit is asked to find the nearest building and shelter in place.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Avoid flooded areas until water has receded,&#8221; the fair said.<\/p>\n<p>Rain and storms are expected throughout the majority of Wednesday and into the morning of Sept. 3.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest on the forecast, follow <a href=\"https:\/\/cnycentral.com\/weather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GEDDES, N.Y. \u2014 The Great New York State Fairgrounds are closed due to flooding. The fair sent out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-336229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336229","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=336229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}