GALLERY: A Look at Rising Water in Bridgeport
By Julie Perine on February 16, 2018 via Connect-Bridgeport.com
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UPDATE: As of 3 p.m., waters have risen higher than shown in these photos, taken Friday morning. Water Street - which runs from 
Virginia Avenue to Faris Avenue - is now covered and closed to traffic (see photo, compliments of Jeff Perine). Water also covers the city parking lot located just off Center Street and behind Main Street Fitness (see photo, compliments of Doug Marquette). Water is rising in the parking lot by Bridgeport Fire Station on Main Street. A small hillslide has affected West Main Street by Speedway. It has been repaired by State Road and is passable, said Bridgeport Fire Chief Phil Hart.
Virginia Avenue to Faris Avenue - is now covered and closed to traffic (see photo, compliments of Jeff Perine). Water also covers the city parking lot located just off Center Street and behind Main Street Fitness (see photo, compliments of Doug Marquette). Water is rising in the parking lot by Bridgeport Fire Station on Main Street. A small hillslide has affected West Main Street by Speedway. It has been repaired by State Road and is passable, said Bridgeport Fire Chief Phil Hart. 
Original Friday morning post: Ongoing overnight rain has raised main waterways, including Simpson Creek in Bridgeport. As of late -morning, water was across Water 
Street and signage has been placed to alert motorists.
Street and signage has been placed to alert motorists.
Smaller streams feeding into Simpson Creek were previously over roadways and parking lots, but have subsided, as can be seen in these photos taken by the Hall Valley Apartments on Hall Valley Drive, just off Route 131 (behind former Skate World).
Water was across Route 131 earlier this morning and washed out a small portion of the roadway near the entrance to Bridgeport Recreation Complex. Use caution when traveling in that area.
There was no school today in Harrison County and some nearby counties, including Barbour and Lewis, that did have school are releasing early today. Bridgeport City Park is closed. Simpson Creek has risen nearly to the footbridge between the park and Wayne Jamison Field. As can be seen in the photo above, water is across parking lots between the football field and Johnson Elementary. See more photos of Bridgeport in the gallery below and also see video shot at the intersection of Virginia Avenue and Water Street and along Water Street. 
Bridgeport is included in cities currently under a flood warning through 4:15 p.m. today (Friday). Motorists are reminded not to drive through standing water on roadways.
Also use caution on U.S. Route 50 (West Main Street) just above Bridgeport Municipal Building, in front of Speedway, where a portion of the hillside has slidden onto roadway.
