{"id":4458,"date":"2009-03-26T12:40:03","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T17:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4458"},"modified":"2009-03-26T12:26:01","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T17:26:01","slug":"my-hometown-is-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4458","title":{"rendered":"All The Jamestown News That Fits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one blows my mind; all you Jamestown natives who read the blog will get it.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the city&#8217;s airport was closed due to flooding:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.areavoices.com\/adams\/images\/airport.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The airport is on the <em>high <\/em>ground.\u00a0 The airport remains closed to fixed-wing planes today.<\/p>\n<p>This, just in time for the blizzard, as the flooding in the lowlands of the James Valley (which I wrote about yesterday) kicks off.<\/p>\n<p>And it is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamestownsun.com\/articles\/index.cfm?id=82725&#038;section=homepage\">kicking off in earnest<\/a>; apparently the &#8220;worst case&#8221; forecasts show both the Jametown and Pipestem dams rising to within a foot of their emergency spillways, even as the Army Corps of Engineers increases outflows from the dams to compensate for the recent rain and massive melt-off.\u00a0 Over that level, and the dams&#8217;ll release directly into the rivers without any regulation, pushing the normally-sluggish (and already-swollen)\u00a0James way over its normally-ample banks.\u00a0 The Corps of Engineers is working on building temporary dikes, and\u00a0 sandbagging is reportedly underway.<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.areavoices.com\/adams\/?blog=46417\">It&#8217;s Good To Be In N.D.<\/a> the only Jamestown-centered blog I can find)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one blows my mind; all you Jamestown natives who read the blog will get it. On Tuesday, the city&#8217;s airport was closed due to flooding: The airport is on the high ground.\u00a0 The airport remains closed to fixed-wing planes today. This, just in time for the blizzard, as the flooding in the lowlands of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-five-ate-for-oh-won","category-midwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}