{"id":446854,"date":"2026-09-25T01:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T01:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/446854\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T01:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T01:18:10","slug":"txdot-closes-two-right-lanes-on-americas-south-amid-flash-flood-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/446854\/","title":{"rendered":"TxDOT closes two right lanes on Americas South amid flash flood warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A flash flood warning in El Paso County is creating major traffic problems, including lane closures on a key roadway, as heavy rain continues to move through the area.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood warning for Central El Paso County. The warning includes East El Paso, Far East El Paso, Mission Valley and Socorro, where between 2 and 2.5 inches of rain has already fallen, with more heavy rain possible.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Department of Transportation reported high water on Americas South before North Loop, with the right two lanes closed. TxDOT said the closure is causing a major backup and listed the clearing time as \u201cuntil further notice.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story, check back for updates. <\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/el-paso-fire-department-responds-to-several-flood-related-calls-amid-flash-flood-warning?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso Fire Department responds to several flood-related calls amid flash flood warning<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A flash flood warning in El Paso County is creating major traffic problems,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-446854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446854","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=446854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}