{"id":3770,"date":"2010-12-11T18:00:53","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T02:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=3770"},"modified":"2010-12-12T11:43:13","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T19:43:13","slug":"update-flood-warnings-issued-centralia-giving-out-sandbags-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=3770","title":{"rendered":"Update: Flood warnings issued; Centralia giving out sandbags tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The city of Centralia is offering sand bags and sand for residents beginning at 6 p.m. this evening and again tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n<p>The move follows the mid-day upgrade of a flood watch to flood warnings on several Southwest Washington rivers, including the Chehalis River and the Skookumchuck River.<\/p>\n<p>The distribution center is on the 100 block of West Center Street, in between Tower Avenue and Pearl Street. It will stay open until 9 p.m. tonight, according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p>It will reopen at 7 a.m. tomorrow along with two other sites.<\/p>\n<p>Police officers will be there confirming addresses since only city residents are eligible, according Police Chief Bob Berg.<\/p>\n<p>Berg urges residents to listen to their local radio for updates as the situation develops.<\/p>\n<p>Moderate flooding is forecast from the Chehalis River at Centralia and minor flooding from the Skookumchuck at Centralia.<\/p>\n<p>More soon.<br \/>\n\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n<p>Read the latest flood warnings, watches and weather statements <a title=\"Flood warnings\" href=\"http:\/\/forecast.weather.gov\/showsigwx.php?warnzone=WAZ504&amp;warncounty=WAC041&amp;firewxzone=WAZ655&amp;local_place1=4+Miles+NW+Centralia+WA&amp;product1=Flood+Warning\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check the river level forecast for your area <a title=\"National Weather Service river observation and forecasts for Western Washington\" href=\"http:\/\/water.weather.gov\/ahps2\/index.php?wfo=sew\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check the weather forecast or your area <a title=\"National Weather Service Forecast Office\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wrh.noaa.gov\/sew\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter The city of Centralia is offering sand bags and sand for residents beginning at 6 p.m. this evening and again tomorrow morning. The move follows the mid-day upgrade of a flood watch to flood warnings on several Southwest Washington rivers, including the Chehalis River and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-3770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3770"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3819,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770\/revisions\/3819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}