{"id":452353,"date":"2026-09-30T18:40:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T18:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/452353\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T18:40:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T18:40:47","slug":"south-desert-north-desert-both-reopen-after-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/452353\/","title":{"rendered":"South Desert, North Desert both reopen after flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KTSM)<\/a> \u2014 Flooding closed both South Desert and North Desert near the stateline for several hours on Tuesday, Sept. 29.<\/p>\n<p>South Desert was closed at Anthony, Texas, until about 7 p.m. on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>North Desert at Vinton was also closed for several hours but reopened at about 5:40 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"720\" width=\"1071\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/HTava2hXcAAJcee_d7688e.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3166536\" \/>South Desert Boulevard is closed near Anthony, Texas, because of flooding. Photo courtesy of TxDOT<\/p>\n<p>Both closures were initially reported with no time estimate on how long they would last but ended up clearing up after several hours.<\/p>\n<p>Both South and North Desert serve as the frontage road to Interstate 10 in Northwest El Paso.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"695\" width=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/HTa3YoFXcAAavpp-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3166575\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2014 Flooding closed both South Desert and North Desert near the stateline for several&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-452353","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\/452353","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=452353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}