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Annie Z. Yu, The Republic | azcentral.com Published 9:58 a.m. MT Sept. 8, 2014 | Updated 5:34 p.m. MT Sept. 8, 2014
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Backed up cartage on Loop 202 Red Mtn and San Tan
Vehicles drive through the abounding Summit Place in Chandler on Monday, Sept. 8, 2014.(Photo: David Wallace/The Republic)
The massive storm that hit the breadth aboriginal Monday abounding Chandler streets and prompted the burghal to actuate its Emergency Operations Center to advice allocation amid the Badge Administration and added cities. Various burghal departments accept added staffing to handle actual needs.
By backward afternoon, artery crews were still alive to set up barricades for lanes, ameliorate cesspool pipes and added tasks, burghal agent Jim Phipps said.
Ponding charcoal on a cardinal of burghal streets as blitz hour cartage picks up.
"It's appealing abundant a blend out there on the burghal streets," Phipps said.
As of 4:20 p.m., the afterward streets remained absolutely closed:
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The afterward streets remained partially closed:
The afterward roadways remained abounding but passable:
Chandler Fire, Health & Medical Administration agent Keith Welch said one of the hardest-hit areas was the Anderson Springs adjacency abreast Chandler Boulevard and Pennington Drive. The administration partnered with badge to actualize a assignment force, whose associates began activity door-to-door in that breadth about 1:30 p.m. to analysis on residents.
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The teams did not acquisition any issues that appropriate added help. They began blockage on added impacted areas in the burghal by 3:30 p.m., and were still alive on that by backward afternoon, Welch told The Arizona Republic at about 4:15 p.m.
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Other impacted areas in the burghal accommodate Ray Road and Hamilton Artery and Dobson and Germann roads, Welch said.
The administration additionally began attractive for another areas to pump water, as the majority of the city's baptize assimilation areas were at best accommodation by backward afternoon, Welch said.
Sand and accoutrements will be accessible at the Fire, Health & Medical Administration address at 151 E. Boston St. until 8 p.m. or until food run out. At one point the burghal ran out of balance abstracts to accord to association and directed them to their bounded Lowe's, Home Depot or added home appurtenances store.
Chandler Unified Academy District remained open, although accouchement will not be penalized if parents absitively it wasn't safe to booty them to school, Phipps said.
The burghal additionally appear some calamity in its board chambers, bidding admiral to move tonight's 7 p.m. board affair to the additional attic of Burghal Hall. The chamber's carpeting is clammy but should be accomplished in time for Thursday's meeting, burghal backer Jane Poston said.
There were no burghal appointment closures, she said.
A distinct ability abeyance that happened anon afterwards 1 p.m. impacted an estimated 1,109 barter on Price Road to Alma Academy Road and Warner Road to Pecos Road, according to the SRP website's outages map.
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Man paddle boards bottomward artery in Chandler.
According to the map, the outages should be bound aural two hours, by 3:12 p.m. SRP agent Jeff Lane said anon afterwards 2:15 p.m. that SRP crews are still investigating the cause.
Several Chandler barter were impacted by ability outages in the aboriginal morning, according to the outages map.
As of noon, 850 SRP barter beyond the Valley after power, bottomward from about 28,000 during the night, according to Lane.
Valley-wide, warnings continued until at atomic 10:30 a.m. Gov. Jan Brewer ordered non-essential advisers to break home; tens of bags of APS barter had no power; cars were alone on Interstate 10 due to aerial waters.
This is the better flood the arena has apparent in 44 years, according to Channel 12 astrologer James Quinones.
Check aback for added Chandler updates and see Valleywide advantage at azcentral.com. Follow anchorman Annie Z. Yu on Twitter @anniezyu.
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