DelDOT camera shows water across Prime Hook Road Saturday morning.
DOVER – Delaware will continue to deal with winds, rain and flooding from the nor’easter today.
Ove the past three days, the nor’easter has dumped more than 4 inches of rain on the area and created impassable conditions on some roads, including Del. 1 between Dewey Beach and Bethany Beach.
The region, however, is getting spared the double-whammy of a hurricane.
“The models have come into agreement that Hurricane Joaquin will stay well out to sea as it moves Northeast,” wrote meteorologist Brian Keane on the WBOC weather blog. “So although we’ll still have to deal with considerable flooding from this weekend’s Nor Easter, conditions could have been much worse.”
In Dover, fans were arriving for the AAA 400 race weekend.
Driver Sober 125 K&N Pro Series East races, already delayed from Friday to Saturday morning, was postponed again. No decision has been made yet on when it will be run.
The speedway still hopes to get the Hisense 200 NASCAR XFINITY Series race started at its originally scheduled time of 3:30 p.m. today.
The National Weather Service is reporting that the Dover area will have rain or drizzle between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. today with a high near 63. It will be windy with northeast winds 24-26 mph with gusts as high as 38 mph.
The forecast improves somewhat for Sunday with dizzle or light rain in the morning and slight chance of rain in the afternoon.
Monday’s forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies and much calmer winds.
DelDOT reported Saturday morning that the strong northeast winds blowing into Delaware continue to hold water in the state’s inland bays. The last 24-hour average sustained wind speed at the Indian River Inlet Bridge was 42 mph.
A coastal flood warning remains in effect until 6 p.m. Sunday and 30 mph winds along the coast are forecast to remain into Monday afternoon.
“This means various roads that have been closed during the storm are likely to see high water until Sunday evening,” wrote spokesman Jim Westhoff of DelDOT in a Saturday morning report. “These roads will be reopened as it becomes safe to do so.”
DelDOT reported the following conditions:
NORTH OF KENT COUNTY
Roads Closed due to High Water:
Woodland Beach Road east of RT 9
Nonesuch Creek at Airport Road
Old State Road @ Old Corbitt Road
Pyles Lane @ Pigeon Road
RT 9 at Fleming Landing Bridge
RT 9 between Paddock Road and Woodland Beach Road
KENT COUNTY
Roads Closed due to High Water:
- Market St (Frederica) is closed
- Bowers Beach Road at Webbs Cutoff
RT 9 between Paddock Road and Woodland Beach Road
Port Mahon Road at RT 9
RT 6 between RT 9 and Woodland Beach Road
- Main St between RT 300 and Providence Dr.
Water on Roadway – Passable
Bowers Beach at Whitwell Delight Road
Cypress Branch Road
Skeeter Neck Road
Tub Mill Pond Road between Fork Landing Road and Blue Jay Ln
Old Cemetery at Tub Mill Pond
Old Cemetery at DE1
- Little Creek Road at RT 9
Deep Grass Ln between Thistlewood Road and Williamsville Road
Deep Grass Ln between Tea Town Road and Messobov Road
Prospect Church Road S/O RT14
Williamsville Road between Holly Hill Road and Blairs Pond Road
Andrewsville Road between Gallo Road and Prospect Church Road
Killens Pond Road N/O Bloomfield Road
Todds Chapel Road between Hickman Road and Fishers Bridge Road
New Wharf Road between Big Stone Road and RT1
Barkers Landing Road E/O State St
Cypress Branch Road N/O Ponderosa Dr
Deep Grass Road between Williamsville Road and Gun and Rod Club Road
Andrewsville Road between Flat Iron Road and Gingerwood Dr, Killens Pond Road S/O Sand Box Road
Big Stone Beach Road between New Wharf Road and Greenhouse Road
Barkers Landing Road at Elementary School and Irish Hill Road between Fox Chase Road and Pinehurst
Irish Hill Road between Fox Chase Road and S Pinehurst Subdivision Ent.
Fork Landing Road between Rothermel Road and Carpenters Bridge Road
SUSSEX COUNTY
Roads Closed due to high Water:
RT 1 Southbound has been reopened between Fred Hudson and Dewey Beach
RT 1 Northbound is CLOSED between Fred Hudson ROAD (ROAD 360) and Dewey Beach. RT 1 will see intermittent closures in this area throughout the storm.
Primehook Road
RT 16 EB from RT 1 to Broadkill Beach
Front St(RT 88) in Milton (RT 88 and RT 5)
River Road between Road 297 and Road 312A
Longneck Road
Falling Point Road between RT 26 to Road 343
Water on Roadway – Passable
Oyster Rock / Near End of road
Cods Road at Road 221
Light House Road at RT 36
13 Curves Road at Cods Road
RT 36 at Draw Bridge
Mt. Friendship Road between BrenfoRoad Road and Bryn Zion Road
Old Mill Bridge area of Dickson Creek
Camp Arrow Head Road
Banks Road between Road 298A and RT 24
Plantation Road between Road 38 and Dead End
RT 24 near Giant Grocery Store
New Road @ Canary Bridge
Fred Hudson Road between RT1 and Road 357
- Shore Dr between RT1 and Dead End
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