{"id":30882,"date":"2026-03-12T18:07:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/30882\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T18:07:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:07:43","slug":"heavy-rain-causes-temporary-road-closures-in-new-bern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/30882\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rain causes temporary road closures in New Bern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; New Bern saw a lot of rain in a short amount of time Thursday afternoon, resulting in some flash flooding. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In the downtown area, police had barricades up on East Front Street as water piled up on the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WITN First Alert Chief Meteorologist Zach Holder says it looks like the New Bern area got between 4 and 5 inches of rain over the course of two to three hours.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"East Front Street blocked off\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FYQY5SCMBBBQHMTIUR2XIHYYA4.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"735\" \/>East Front Street blocked off(WITN)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to city officials, the water has now receded, and there are no road closures. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; New Bern saw a lot of rain in a short amount of time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[104,18557,107,18556],"class_list":{"0":"post-30882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bern","8":"tag-bern","9":"tag-flooding","10":"tag-new-bern","11":"tag-rain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116217540908326270","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}