{"id":288230,"date":"2010-02-06T17:55:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T22:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a86c1ab5970b"},"modified":"2010-02-06T19:14:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T00:14:14","slug":"rains-wash-out-ortega-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/288230","title":{"rendered":"Rains wash out Ortega Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">\n<p>The heavy rains have washed out Ortega Highway, which connects&#0160;Orange and Riverside counties.<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;Also known as State Route 74, the highway was closed at 1:50 p.m. Saturday and is expected to open at&#0160;6 a.m. Sunday, according to the California Highway Patrol. Once it opens, traffic is expected to be slow.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;;\">The road is completely closed to westbound traffic. The eastbound lanes are open only to residents and those who work at Quest Diagnostics, a few miles east of San Juan Capistrano. <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;;\">The winding mountain road&#0160;runs from San Juan Capistrano&#0160;to Lake Elsinore. <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;;\">&#8211;Jeff Gottlieb<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"holder\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"gallery-slideshow-image\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"holder\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"gallery-slideshow-image\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"holder\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"gallery-slideshow-image\">\n <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cars damaged from the mudflows in La Ca\u00f1ada today.\" class=\"gallery-slideshow-photo \" src=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/media\/photo\/2010-02\/52072781.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0pt 5px 5px 0pt; width: 179px; height: 101px; float: left;\" title=\"Cars damaged from the mudflows in La Ca\u00f1ada today.\" \/>\n <\/div>\n<p><\/span><strong>FULL COVERAGE OF THE MUDSLIDES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-rain6-pictures,0,1037208.photogallery\">&#8211;Times photo gallery from the scene<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-storm-map-2010-feb-6,0,5250908.htmlstory\"><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-storm-map-2010-feb-6,0,5250908.htmlstory\">&#8211;Interactive map of evacuations by The Times&#39; Rong-Gong Lin II<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/mudslides\/\">&#8211;The latest rain news as it happens on L.A. Now<\/a><em><br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heavy rains have washed out Ortega Highway, which connects&#0160;Orange and Riverside counties. &#0160;Also known as State Route 74, the highway was closed at 1:50 p.m. Saturday and is expected to open at&#0160;6 a.m. Sunday, according to the California Highway Patrol. Once it opens, traffic is expected to be slow. The road is completely closed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}