Roadworks - NW Coastal Hwy

We came down part of that road in the past fortnight. We had turned inland from Pt Hedland and went through the centre of Karijini then Tom Price, Paraburdoo and back to the NW Coastal Hwy at Nanutarra. Somewhere there we saw a sign stating roadwork's ahead for 200km from memory. We turned off to Exmouth on to the Burkett Rd but there had been stretches of dirt bypass road prepared for works on the Hwy, but not in use at that time. We were up around Exmouth for a week during which time some areas received 50 mm of rain. Prior to leaving to head further South there were notifications that there was a closure on the NW Coastal Hwy from where we had turned off and down to the Minilya to Exmouth Rd junction and this was also on the WA Main Roads web site. Although we went direct down past Coral Bay to Minilya we saw no flooding anywhere but at a Rest Area soon afterwards we did hear the story that there was, or had been, a truck bogged on a section of the Hwy bypass dirt that was the cause of the closure but we can't personally verify that. Keep in mind that this region has rain forecast over the next week.

I hope the WA Main Roads web site improves as at the same time that they were declaring the NW Coastal Hwy closed they were also saying that Learmonth to Exmouth was subject to flooding. This was confusing to people up there as there had been no rain for a few days and when we drove South and plenty of dry cars coming in to Exmouth, with that warning still on their web site, there was no water on the road and only small pools off to the side.

Interesting, it's happened again.
https://www.mainroads.wa.gov.au/Pages/Alerts.aspx
Rain is quite widespread at the moment.