{"id":341178,"date":"2026-06-18T10:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/341178\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T10:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:59:08","slug":"storm-surge-threatens-highway-on-texas-bolivar-peninsula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/341178\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Surge Threatens Highway on Texas&#8217; Bolivar Peninsula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Storm surge from <a data-ylk=\"slk:Tropical Storm Arthur;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSHouston\/status\/2067320967508943233?s=20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Tropical Storm Arthur<\/a> inundated parts of Texas&#8217; Bolivar Peninsula on Wednesday, June 17, as rough conditions battered the Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage shared by Jack Revnew shows rough surf pounding the shoreline as elevated water levels affected the peninsula. Revnew <a data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JackRevnew\/status\/2067292780188094515?s=20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> storm surge waters were &#8220;extraordinarily close&#8221; to crossing Highway 87.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Local media <a data-ylk=\"slk:reported;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/kfdm.com\/news\/local\/tropical-storm-arthur-sends-surf-sand-and-debris-over-highway-87-on-bolivar-peninsula\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> that surf, sand and debris were pushed across stretches of the highway, while the National Weather Service <a data-ylk=\"slk:issued;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSHouston\/status\/2067170993739575541?s=20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">issued<\/a> flash flood warnings for parts of the upper Texas coast. Credit: Jack Revnew via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Storm surge from Tropical Storm Arthur inundated parts of Texas&#8217; Bolivar Peninsula on Wednesday, June 17, as rough&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[121693,100185,121694,12334,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-341178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-bolivar-peninsula","tag-flash-flood-warnings","tag-jack-revnew","tag-storm-surge","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341178","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=341178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}