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Heavy rainfall closes section of Highway 101 in Santa Barbara County, but flooded area has reopened

A U.S. interstate road sign with the designation '101.'

Santa Barbara Airport also closed Saturday due to runway flooding, but reopened Sunday morning.

Heavy rainfall closed a section of Highway 101 in Santa Barbara County Saturday morning, as well as Santa Barbara Airport.

The highway was closed from just west of Goleta to the junction with Highway 1, outside of Buellton.

Traffic was being rerouted onto Highway 154, through the Santa Ynez Valley. Southbound lanes reopened Saturday night, and northbound lanes reopened Sunday.

Heavy rainfall also led to the shutdown of Santa Barbara Airport Saturday due to runway flooding. It reopened Sunday morning.

The rain also led to a number of streets being closed in the Santa Barbara area due to flooding.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.