{"id":53829,"date":"2021-12-28T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T19:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/home2\/snow-causes-100s-of-incidents-along-king-county-highways-freeways\/"},"modified":"2021-12-28T12:10:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T20:10:07","slug":"snow-causes-100s-of-incidents-along-king-county-highways-freeways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/northwest\/snow-causes-100s-of-incidents-along-king-county-highways-freeways\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow leads to hundreds of incidents along King County highways, freeways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How bad are the highways and freeways in King County due to all the snow this week?<\/p>\n<p>Well, Washington State Patrol troopers have responded in King County to 279 collisions and 865 other incidents, such as vehicles stuck, etc., since the snow began falling on Christmas, according to a State Patrol tweet on Tuesday morning, Dec. 28.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Stay home if you can, if not, slow down,&rdquo; the State Patrol tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous lanes were blocked Dec. 26 along northbound Interstate 5 near Southcenter in Tukwila after a trooper&rsquo;s SUV was struck, according to the State Patrol. The trooper was not injured.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service predicts more snow could fall in the Seattle area Wednesday night and into Thursday, possibly another 1 to 2 inches.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures are predicted to stay below freezing until a high of 36 degrees on Thursday, but the low that night could drop to 20. On New Year&rsquo;s Day, the high is predicted to be 39 and the low 34. On Sunday, it&rsquo;s predicted to be a high of 41 and a low of 34.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Patrol responds to 279 collisions, 865 other incidents over 3 days <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":53830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,24],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-53829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home2","category-northwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53829"}],"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\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53829"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=53829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}