{"id":38888,"date":"2019-02-04T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/snow-day-storm-packs-a-punch\/"},"modified":"2019-02-05T09:42:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T17:42:39","slug":"snow-day-storm-packs-a-punch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/snow-day-storm-packs-a-punch\/","title":{"rendered":"Frozen: storm leaves a frozen grip on Kent, valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Schools remained closed and city services delayed or disrupted from the fixed freeze of a winter storm that brought a thick blanket of snow, strong wind and troublesome ice to Kent and the Green River Valley.<\/p>\n<p>The snow and ice that hit the area early Monday decided to stick around as low temperatures plummeted well below freezing Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The storm has disrupted the routine workday, messed up roads, snarled traffic and canceled events.<\/p>\n<p>For the second day, Kent schools were closed.<\/p>\n<p>Daytime and evening classes Tuesday were cancelled on Green River College campuses in Auburn and Kent, and also at Highline College in Des Moines.<\/p>\n<p>There is no garbage, recycle or yard waste collection Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Stay updated on the changing weather and road conditions at <a href=\"https:\/\/kcemergency.com\/2019\/02\/04\/snow-blankets-puget-sound-region\/\" target=\"_blank\">kcemergency.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For road advisories, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentwa.gov\/residents\/transportation-and-streets\/traffic-advisories\" target=\"_blank\">drivekent.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schools, local colleges closed; some roads challenging; activities disrupted, garbage pickup canceled | UPDATE <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"featured_media":38906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-38888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38888"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=38888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}