{"id":40898,"date":"2025-12-16T10:21:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T10:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/severe-weather-hits-washington-state-dam-breach-prompts-evacuation-order\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T10:21:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T10:21:47","slug":"severe-weather-hits-washington-state-dam-breach-prompts-evacuation-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/severe-weather-hits-washington-state-dam-breach-prompts-evacuation-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe weather hits Washington state: dam breach prompts evacuation order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dam breach in the US state of Washington due to heavy rain has led to an evacuation order. A flood warning will remain in effect until at least 9:00 PM as torrential rains sweep across the Pacific Northwest coast.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2025%2F12%2F16%2F1765878274-1145-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"Severe weather hits Washington state: dam breach prompts evacuation order\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Due to a dam breach in the US state of Washington, caused by heavy rain, an evacuation order has been issued. This is reported by UNN with reference to Reuters.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>The National Weather Service said a flood warning related to the dam breach would remain in effect until at least 9 p.m. (5 a.m. GMT on Tuesday).<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, local authorities have been expressing concern about dam breaches for several days as heavy rains have swept across much of the Pacific Northwest coast.<\/p>\n<p>In parallel, a video of the consequences of the dam breach, which led to the evacuation being announced, appeared online.<\/p>\n<h2>Recall<\/h2>\n<p>In early December, Greece was hit by storm &quot;Byron&quot;, which led to school closures, significant flooding, and disruptions to public services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dam breach in the US state of Washington due to heavy rain has led to an evacuation order. A flood warning will remain in effect until at least 9:00 PM as torrential rains sweep across the Pacific Northwest coast. Due to a dam breach in the US state of Washington, caused by heavy rain, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}