Flooding closes sections of Route 20 in Guilderland 20%

By News staff13%

8/6/2026, 5:07:46 PM

Keywords: Local, Alco, Latestnews

BS Summary: This article contains 8 faulty reasoning types, including Anchoring Bias, Indoctrination, and Optimism Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 28.9% saturation with 43 hits. Analysis detected 139 faulty-reasoning hits from 149 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 27.7% and a BS Rank of 20% (23,278 of 28,836 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 80.70% of the article peer group.

GUILDERLAND  Flooding forced the closure of two sections of Route 20 Thursday evening. 
The Guilderland Police Department advised drivers to avoid the area of Route 20 and Fuller Station Road because of the flooding. 
A portion of the road near Homes Terrace was also closed, according to 511NY, the state Department of Transportation's traffic alert system. 
A flash flood warning has been issued for much of the Capital Region and remains in effect until 10:15 p.m. 
As of 7:12 p.m., 1 to 2 inches of rain had already fallen, according to the National Weather Service in Albany. 
More rainfall up to 1 inch is possible, the weather service said. 
"Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. 
Most flood deaths occur in vehicles," the weather service's advisory reads. 
"Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads." 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%News staff: 1.4%Times Union: 2.3%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 13.4%News staff: 0.6%Times Union: 0.7%Anchoring Bias13.4%This article: 7.4%News staff: 1.9%Times Union: 1.8%Availability Heuristic7.4%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.5%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 2.3%Times Union: 0.6%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.9%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 2.5%Times Union: 2.5%Framing Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.4%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.6%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 8.1%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 1.4%Optimism Bias8.1%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.9%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 7.4%News staff: 9.8%Times Union: 5.6%Negativity Bias7.4%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 1.5%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.5%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.1%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.8%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 1.2%Times Union: 0.9%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.1%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 28.9%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 1.7%Appeal to Authority28.9%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.4%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.0%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 7.4%News staff: 3.5%Times Union: 1.3%Hasty Generalization7.4%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.1%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.2%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 1.9%Times Union: 2.1%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.5%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 1.1%Times Union: 0.8%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.7%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.6%Times Union: 0.8%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 6.4%Times Union: 1.7%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 7.4%News staff: 2.3%Times Union: 0.8%Quote-first Misdirection7.4%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.4%Times Union: 1.1%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 13.4%News staff: 1.6%Times Union: 0.4%Indoctrination13.4%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.0%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%News staff: 0.0%Times Union: 0.2%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

149 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers72%attributed speech42writer words
100%flagged-word coverage
64 attributed words60% of attributed speech48% writer coverage
0%17.5%35.0%Indoctrination+31.3 ptsWriter: 0.0%National Weather Service in Albany: 31.3%31.3%Quote-first Misdirection+17.2 ptsWriter: 0.0%National Weather Service in Albany: 17.2%17.2%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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