Even after sunshine replaced days of rain Wednesday morning in Southcentral Alaska, Mat-Su officials reported numerous roads near the Talkeetna Mountains still partly blocked or closed by flooding creeks and rivers.
The Little Susitna River runs high below the Parks Highway bridge in Houston on Tuesday.
PALMER -- Even after sunshine replaced days of rain Wednesday morning in Southcentral Alaska, Mat-Su officials reported numerous roads still partly blocked or closed by flooding creeks and rivers near the Talkeetna Mountains.Eight roads were closed by flooding early Wednesday as well as seven roadblocks and seven roads being monitored for high water, according to a Matanuska-Susitna Borough. The roads were in the Willow and Houston areas as well as along the Little Susitna River near Wasilla.
Four to 6 inches of rain fell in the Talkeetnas since Sunday evening, forecasters say. The Little Su at the Parks Highway in Houston rose into moderate flood stage at 1 p.m. Tuesday with water levels expected to crest Tuesday night., and emergency officials reported 20 homes with floodwater at or inside structures.
The river had apparently crested by mid-morning Wednesday and was beginning to drop in some areas near the Parks Highway bridge, city officialsOfficials there reminded people not to drive through floodwaters “for your safety and road integrity. When waters are over the road, it weakens the road surface.
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