{"id":61935,"date":"2023-02-21T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/severe-weather-shelter-in-kent-to-open-wednesday-thursday-nights\/"},"modified":"2023-02-21T14:12:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T22:12:00","slug":"severe-weather-shelter-in-kent-to-open-wednesday-thursday-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/severe-weather-shelter-in-kent-to-open-wednesday-thursday-nights\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe Weather Shelter in Kent to open Wednesday, Thursday nights"},"content":{"rendered":"

The city of Kent will open its Severe Weather Shelter on Wednesday and Thursday nights, Feb. 22 and Feb. 23, at Holy Spirit Church, 310 Third Ave. S.<\/p>\n

The low Wednesday night low in Kent is predicted to be 23 degrees with wind between 15 and 17 mph, according to the National Weather Service. A high of 34 degrees is predicted for Thursday and a low of 20 degrees Thursday night.<\/p>\n

The shelter will run from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. each night.<\/p>\n

Details<\/strong><\/p>\n

• Check-in from 9-10 p.m. is preferred<\/p>\n

• Doors will close once capacity is reached<\/p>\n

• Guests must stay in their assigned locations<\/p>\n

• Bottled water and pre-packaged snacks will be available<\/p>\n

• No re-entry upon exit<\/p>\n

• Guests must vacate shelter by 7 a.m.<\/p>\n

Note<\/strong>: The operation of the Kent Severe Weather Shelter is dependent on the availability of adequate staffing. Please direct all inquiries about volunteering and donations to Holy Spirit Church at 253-859-0444.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Low temperatures predicted to be 23 and 20 degrees <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":61936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-61935","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\/61935"}],"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=61935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61935"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=61935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}