{"id":339559,"date":"2026-06-17T07:40:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T07:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/339559\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T07:40:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T07:40:42","slug":"lee-county-road-closed-after-heavy-rains-wash-out-section-of-county-road-426","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/339559\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee County road closed after heavy rains wash out section of County Road 426"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEE COUNTY, Texas \u2014 A section of County Road 426 remains closed after heavy rains washed out part of the roadway Monday , Lee County emergency management officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The Lee County Office of Emergency Management said the road is closed between County Road 424 and County Road 430 because of the flood damage. Photos released by the office show a large section of pavement collapsed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/barton-springs-closed-until-further-notice-as-stormwater-fills-creek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | Barton Springs closed &#8220;until further notice&#8221; as stormwater fills creek<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Precinct 4 crews were on scene assessing the damage and working to repair the road, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials asked drivers to respect barricades and use alternate routes, warning that flood-damaged roads can remain unstable and dangerous even after water recedes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEE COUNTY, Texas \u2014 A section of County Road 426 remains closed after heavy rains washed out part&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-339559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}