{"id":10488,"date":"2025-07-15T01:50:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T01:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/10488\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T01:50:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T01:50:04","slug":"gov-murphy-declares-state-of-emergency-due-to-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/10488\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Murphy declares state of emergency due to flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Phil Murphy had declared a state of emergency due to flooding around New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am declaring a State of Emergency given flash flooding and high levels of rainfall in parts of the state,\u201d the governor wrote in a post on X. \u201cPlease stay indoors and avoid unnecessary travel. Stay safe, New Jersey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Heavy rain caused flooding, damage and road closures around the state \u2013 particularly in central New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>The storm is bringing several inches of rain per hour to areas of New Jersey. The National Weather Service has issued <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWS_MountHolly\" rel=\"nofollow\">flash flood warnings<\/a> throughout the state.<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ScotchPlainsFlooding.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n\tFlooding at Mountain Ave and Park Ave in Scotch Plains, NJ<br \/>\n\t\tCREDIT: Michael Ajala<\/p>\n<p>Motorists are reminded to never drive through flooded roadways and to stay inside as much as possible during the storm.<\/p>\n<p>New Jersey Transit says that train and light rail service may be impacted by the weather. The agency also says that several bus routes are subject to detours due to flooding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNJ TRANSIT bus and private carrier bus services are accepting rail tickets and passes systemwide,\u201d the company wrote on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Phil Murphy had declared a state of emergency due to flooding around New Jersey. \u201cI am declaring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,1024,1023,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-10488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-flash-flooding","10":"tag-flooding","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}