{"id":66760,"date":"2021-01-14T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/avalanche-risk-increasing-along-thane-road\/"},"modified":"2021-01-14T10:23:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T19:23:00","slug":"avalanche-risk-increasing-along-thane-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/avalanche-risk-increasing-along-thane-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche risk increasing along Thane Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City officials are asking residents who live near Thane Road to be on high alert for avalanches through Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>High winds combined with heavy snowfall at higher elevations will cause the avalanche hazard above Thane Road to rapidly increase Thursday evening, according to the Alaska Department of Transportation &#038; Public Facilities (DOT&#038;PF). This increases the possibility of an avalanche reaching Thane Road in the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For your safety<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Obey posted warning signs on Thane Road: Do not stop or park in the avalanche danger zone. If access along Thane Road is blocked, it is unlikely DOT&#038;PF will be able to safely remove debris until the hazard decreases naturally. Be prepared for extended road closures.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit CBJ&rsquo;s Emergency Management <a href=\"https:\/\/juneau.org\/emergency\/personal-and-household-preparedness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a> for details about personal and household preparedness.<\/p>\n<p>DOT&#038;PF is monitoring the situation closely and will provide updates when necessary. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be careful and plan for the possibility of an extended road closure. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":716,"featured_media":66761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[765],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-66760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-city-and-borough-of-juneau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66760"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=66760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}