By Spectrum News Staff Western New York PUBLISHED 5:56 PM ET Jul. 17, 2021 PUBLISHED 5:56 PM EDT Jul. 17, 2021
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Saturday s wild weather has authorities warning drivers to use caution on the roads.
Amherst Police say flooding forced the New York State Department of Transportation to shut down the area of Maple Road and Niagara Falls Boulevard around 12:30 p.m. Saturday. That intersection reopened about four hours later.
JUST IN: Niagara Falls Boulevard is flooding near Maple Road in Amherst. Remember. Turn around, don t drown. @SPECNews1BUF : Carlos Mendoza Jr. #WXOnthe1spic.twitter.com/iX8bXp8lxb Stephen Marth (@StephenMarth) July 17, 2021
Transportation officials also closed roads due to flooding in Grand Island and the town of Concord.
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Authorities are reporting a few trees down and some urban flooding as a result of thunderstorms that swept through the area late in the afternoon and into the night June 8.
New York State Electric and Gas crews have been busy into the morning with over 1,100 of power outages in Tioga and Tompkins Counties. A majority of those customers without power were in the Spencer area.
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Meanwhile, motorists should be aware of standing pools of water on some roadways. The newly rebuilt section of Front Street in the City of Binghamton has been a recent location of water extending several feet from curbs and driveways into the roadway in the outbound, northbound lane from about Gaines Street to Prospect Street. There may also be debris on roads where trees and branches were brought down by the storms.