{"id":235444,"date":"2026-07-04T13:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T13:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235444\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T13:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T13:58:09","slug":"lehigh-valley-road-closures-due-to-storm-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235444\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Valley road closures due to storm damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday night\u2019s storms in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/07\/03\/allentown-weather-july-fourth-weekend-heat-storms\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lehigh Valley downed numerous trees and wires<\/a>, leading to closures of several major roads.<\/p>\n<p>As of 9:30 a.m. Saturday, the following roads remained closed, according to PennDOT:<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh County<\/p>\n<p>-Route 29 between Tollgate Road and Batman Road due to downed tree and wires.<\/p>\n<p>-Main Road\/Brunner Road\/Vera Cruz Road\/St. Peters Road between Lazor Drive and Bachman Road due to downed tree and wires.<\/p>\n<p>-Powder Valley Road between Palm Road and Woodlawn Road due to downed tree and wires.<\/p>\n<p>-Longswamp Road\/Front Street\/Alburtis Road\/East Penn Avenue between Main Street and Schoeneck Road due to downed tree and wires.<\/p>\n<p>Northampton County<\/p>\n<p>-Route 145 between Birch Drive and Blue Mountain Drive due to downed utility.<\/p>\n<p>-Old Carriage Road between Seemsville Road and Howertown Road due to downed utility.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday night\u2019s storms in the Lehigh Valley downed numerous trees and wires, leading to closures of several major&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,202,433,182,139,434,28,432,1133],"class_list":["post-235444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}