{"id":7025,"date":"2013-08-13T11:38:32","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T15:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=7025"},"modified":"2013-08-13T15:49:49","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T19:49:49","slug":"county-reports-heavy-rains-9-1-1-call-volume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=7025","title":{"rendered":"County reports heavy rains, heavy 9-1-1 call volume"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\"><em><strong>Sunnier skies due Wednesday, but flood warnings remain in effect<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_7026\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_0189.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7026\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7026 \" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"Flood warnings continue for the Brandywine Creek, but heavy rain has moved out of the area, county officials report.\" src=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_0189-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_0189-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_0189-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_0189-900x675.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7026\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flood warnings continue for the Brandywine Creek, but heavy rain has moved out of the area, county officials report.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Chester County Department of Emergency Services has released the following information on area weather conditions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>24-hour rainfall amounts at 10 a.m. included: Atglen, \u00a03.72 inches;\u00a0Marshallton, 3.25; West Chester, 2.65; Chester Springs, 3.08; and Malvern, 2.37.<\/p>\n<p>The flash-flood warnings have been extended until 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, and flood warnings and a flash-flood watch remain in effect until 4 a.m. on Wednesday. Although a tornado warning was issued for southeast Chester County and northern Delaware that has since expired, no tornado was reported in Chester County.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Flooding reports have come in from typical, flood-prone areas such as underpasses in Caln Township between South Bailey Road and 12<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Avenue, \u00a0the U.S. 30 corridor, \u00a0Rt. 340 and G.O. Carlson Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>The east branch of the Brandywine is currently experiencing minor flooding. It is expected to crest between 11 a.m. and noon Tuesday at about 3 feet above flood stage. Valley Creek is experiencing major flooding, and the National Weather Service is monitoring the water levels.<\/p>\n<p>Between 5:30 and 7:30 a.m. this morning approximately 30 water rescues were dispatched, and 10 rescues took place.\u00a0 No injuries or transports resulted. Between 5 and 9 a.m., 270 calls came in to the 9-1-1 center, compared with 91 on Monday. The heavy rains affected microwave communications, resulting in a degraded signal. Communications are now back to normal.<\/p>\n<p>The Tuesday afternoon forecast calls for light rain; the heavy precipitation\u00a0has moved out of the area. On Wednesday, sunny skies are predicted with temperatures in the mid-70s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunnier skies due Wednesday, but flood warnings remain in effect The Chester County Department of Emergency Services has released the following information on area weather conditions. 24-hour rainfall amounts at 10 a.m. included: Atglen, \u00a03.72 inches;\u00a0Marshallton, 3.25; West Chester, 2.65; Chester Springs, 3.08; and Malvern, 2.37. The flash-flood warnings have been extended until 2:30 p.m. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[2672],"class_list":["post-7025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-the-chester-county-department-of-emergency-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}