{"id":374258,"date":"2010-02-28T16:39:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T21:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f48ea43970c"},"modified":"2010-03-01T11:30:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T16:30:47","slug":"no-tsunami-but-winter-tides-enough-to-flood-pacific-coast-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/374258","title":{"rendered":"No tsunami, but winter tides enough to flood Pacific Coast Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two separate high tides flooded several Orange County coastal cities Sunday morning, forcing sections of Pacific Coast Highway to close.<\/p>\n<p>At about 8:30 a.m., water flooded all lanes of the highway near the main entrance to Bolsa Chica State Beach, Huntington Beach Police Lt. Mike Reynolds said. Sand and ocean debris blocked the roadways and the southbound lanes were shut down. <\/p>\n<p>Moments later, flooding occurred in Sunset Beach near Anderson Street, forcing that section of the highway to close. After Caltrans set up barriers to divert the water, all lanes of Pacific Coast Highway were opened except the southbound lanes from Warner Avenue to Sea Point Street in Huntington Beach. Reynolds said that area was expected to stay closed throughout the day.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn Seal Beach, lifeguard Alex Parton said the flooding didn\u2019t stop hundreds of people from making their way to the beach, where surfers and body boarders took advantage of waves of up to 10 feet. <\/p>\n<p>A high surf advisory is in effect until 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Corina Knoll<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two separate high tides flooded several Orange County coastal cities Sunday morning, forcing sections of Pacific Coast Highway to close. At about 8:30 a.m., water flooded all lanes of the highway near the main entrance to Bolsa Chica State Beach, Huntington Beach Police Lt. Mike Reynolds said. Sand and ocean debris blocked the roadways and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5746,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374258","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\/5746"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}