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Flooding causes road closures in Central Texas
Updated: 10/22/2009 10:34 AM
By: News 8 Austin Staff

Rains from Wednesday night and Thursday morning have caused some high water on some roadways.

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Travis County has closed the following roads:

• Juniper Trail @ Bee Creek
• Bee Creek Road @ Bee Creek
• Big Sandy at Round Mountain
• 6700 Lakewood Drive (In Bull Creek Park)
• 14100 Fitzhugh Road
• 25000 Hamilton Pool Road


Hays County has closed the following roads:

• Flite Acres Rd @ Little Arkansas
• CR 1492 @ Low Water Crossing
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• Bendigo Ln @ Low Water Crossing
• Hidden Valley @ Low Water Crossing
• Wayside Dr @ Bendigo Crossing
• John Knox Rd @ Bendigo Crossing
• Trautwein Rd @ Barton Creek Low Water Crossing
• Fitzhugh Rd @ Low Water Crossing (just inside Travis County)
• Bell Springs Rd @ Barton Creek Low Water Crossing


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Williamson County has closed the following roads:

• CR 232
• CR 272
• CR 177
• CR 252
• CR 223
• CR 226
• CR 288
• CR 200
• CR 305
• CR 143
• CR 179
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• CR 204
• CR 250
• CR 215
• CR 251
• CR 200 @ Bear Creek
• CR 174 @ Brushy Bend
• San Gabriel River Ranch
• CR 123
• CR 152
• CR 303
• Big and Little Makin’s Crossing

Burnet County said these roads are either closed or impassible:

• FM 963 CLOSED from 1.5 mile North of the shooting range to 2240
• FM 2340 CLOSED in the Lake Victor area
• Park Road 4 off of Hwy 281
• FM 1174 South one mile north of FM 1869
• CR116 at PR4 at low crossing
• FM 2342 low water crossings at Shangri-La and Long Country Cv.
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• Doublehorn Creek at CR 404
• CR 200 (Shady Grove Rd.)
• CR 120
• CR 200A
• CR 200B
• CR 200C
• CR 340A near Industrial Rd.
• CR 330 near railroad tracks (at Burnet city limits)
• Deer Springs low water crossings
• FM 1980, 4 miles north of FM 1431
• CR 131
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• CR 122 at low water crossing
• FM 2340 (completely closed)
• FM 2147 East at Flatrock Creek
• CR 323 at 400 block
• FM 1174 south of Double Horn Creek
• CR 413 in Spicewood
• CR 243 at Mahomet
• CR 211 near Berry Creek in the Briggs area
• FM 1174 North CLOSED at San Gabriel Creek


Burnet County officials also said that Burnet Independent School District will be running about two hours late. Expect the buses to come two hours later than they normally do.

Llano County reported the usual low water crossings around Kingsland and the Horseshoe Bay area.



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