{"id":4540,"date":"2011-01-18T08:25:36","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T16:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=4540"},"modified":"2011-01-18T19:07:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T03:07:47","slug":"river-dropping-in-randle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=4540","title":{"rendered":"River dropping in Randle"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker
\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n

Randle area Fire Chief Jeff Jaques said the Cowlitz River at Randle is dropping slowly and he expects it will be a few hours before the closed roads will reopen.<\/p>\n

The river level was just over 20 feet at 7 a.m. today.<\/p>\n

The National Weather Service reports the river crested at just over 22 feet yesterday. Flood stage is 18 feet.<\/p>\n

Jaques said it has been a fairly uneventful weekend of just monitoring the river.<\/p>\n

U.S. Highway 12 just east of the intersection with state Route 131 was closed, and a detour put in place on Silverbrook Road. State Route 131 which leads out towards Cispus was closed as well.<\/p>\n

“We didn’t get a single call for anyone wanting to be rescued” or any emergency calls, Jaques said this morning.<\/p>\n

Most people in the area have been through it before and know how to deal with flooding, he said.<\/p>\n

“I think that big flood in 2006 got everyone’s attention,” Jaques said.<\/p>\n

In November 2006 the Cowlitz River rose to just over 25 feet, some seven feet beyond its flood stage, causing major damage to the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter Randle area Fire Chief Jeff Jaques said the Cowlitz River at Randle is dropping slowly and he expects it will be a few hours before the closed roads will reopen. The river level was just over 20 feet at 7 a.m. today. The National Weather Service […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4540"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4543,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540\/revisions\/4543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}