{"id":11166,"date":"2019-05-03T17:29:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T17:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=11166"},"modified":"2019-05-03T17:29:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T17:29:08","slug":"here-come-the-high-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/03\/here-come-the-high-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Come The High Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\"><i>River level drop is good news, but officials warn it won\u2019t last forever<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">By Eric Valentine<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11167\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11167\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11167 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/draper3-e1556904469161-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A popular Hailey hiking spot, the Draper Wood River Preserve, was closed due to flooding. Photo credit: Eric Valentine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p2\">First it was the avalanches, now it\u2019s the floods. And although this past week\u2019s predicted 5.2-foot \u201cwater stage elevation\u201d\u2014the technical way of saying river height\u2014never happened, area officials are quick to point out the Big Wood River could still bring big flooding in May and into June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">\u201cWe\u2019re still there. Everybody should still be on guard,\u201d said Brian Yeager, Hailey\u2019s city engineer and public works director.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">According to Yeager, the river height over the past week was between 4.3 and 4.7 feet. That\u2019s a significant drop from the water levels that flooded the Draper Preserve and surrounding neighborhood over Easter weekend. The sigh of relief, however, could be short-lived as the National Weather Service is predicting that by May 6 the river could hit flood level\u20145 feet high.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">\u201cThere\u2019s about a 20 percent chance of that happening, but in the beginning of June that goes up to 90 percent,\u201d Yeager explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Specific areas where residents need to be especially vigilant are:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">In Bellevue: Riverview Drive<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">In Hailey: Cedar Street, War Eagle Drive and Della Vista Drive in the Della View subdivision<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">In Ketchum: Wood River Drive and the Gimlet subdivision<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">The most memorable recent local flooding took place in the spring of 2017, which was preceded by a large-snowfall winter much like February this year. Numerous homes in Hailey that year were under emergency evacuation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Residents in and around floodplains have been encouraged by area officials for weeks to prepare in numerous ways, from sandbag usage to signing up for the Code Red alert system at public.codered.com. In addition, river level predictions can be viewed online as well on the National Weather Service website at water.weather.gov, where you can search for your specific area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>River level drop is good news, but officials warn it won\u2019t last forever By Eric Valentine First it was the avalanches, now it\u2019s the floods. And although this past week\u2019s predicted 5.2-foot \u201cwater stage elevation\u201d\u2014the technical way of saying river height\u2014never happened, area officials are quick to point out the Big Wood River could still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18,36,49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment-2","8":"category-news","9":"category-slider","10":"category-top-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}