{"id":5521,"date":"2018-02-16T14:15:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T22:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=5521"},"modified":"2018-02-16T14:15:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T22:15:16","slug":"wind-advisory-issued-yakima-area-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wind-advisory-issued-yakima-area-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind Advisory Issued for Yakima Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Weather Service (&#8220;NWS&#8221;) has issued a wind advisory for the Yakima area. It is in effect tomorrow, Saturday, February 17<sup>th<\/sup> from 11:00 am through 10 pm.<\/p>\n<p>The NWS anticipates sustained winds between 25 to 35 mph, with gusts up to 55 mph.<\/p>\n<p>It cautions that tree limbs may break and scattered power outages are possible. Loose or unsecured objects may topple over or become airborne.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Yakima encourages residents and motorists to use extra caution during the wind advisory.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Yakima&#8217;s Refuse Division ask residents for the following assistance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bag all garbage to prevent it blowing out of trucks and, if possible do not leave cart out at the curb or alley after it is emptied.<\/li>\n<li>After collection remove cart from the curb and store container in your yard to prevent carts from blowing into the street or alleys.<\/li>\n<li>Try and make sure carts are setting upright when the truck arrives to empty your container. Note: Drivers are unable to set and clean-up carts blown over due to high winds and other factors and be able to complete their routes in the allotted time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If there are power outages, they can be reported 24\/7 to Pacific Power by calling 1-877-508-5088. The utility cautions that if you see a downed power line, call 911 immediately and then call its toll-free power outage line.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Wind-Advisory-News-Release-2.pdf\">Wind Advisory &#8211; News Release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Weather Service (&#8220;NWS&#8221;) has issued a wind advisory for the Yakima area. It is in effect tomorrow, Saturday, February 17th from 11:00 am through 10 pm. The NWS anticipates sustained winds between 25 to 35 mph, with gusts up to 55 mph. It cautions that tree limbs may break and scattered power outages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32,267,23],"class_list":["post-5521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-national-weather-service","tag-wind-advisory","tag-yakima"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5523,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521\/revisions\/5523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}