{"id":41020,"date":"2016-08-30T22:31:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T02:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=41020"},"modified":"2016-08-30T22:31:04","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T02:31:04","slug":"lehigh-acres-flooding-state-of-emergency-asked-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/08\/lehigh-acres-flooding-state-of-emergency-asked-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Acres Flooding State Of Emergency Asked For"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_41021\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41021\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41021\" title=\"flooding\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/flooding-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/flooding-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/flooding.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41021\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The County Commissioners will hold a special session Wednesday morning to declare of state of emergency for a section of eastern Lee County in which private roads have been overcome by rain in the past few days.<\/p>\n<p>Lee County commissioners will be asked to declare a state of local emergency for an area of\u00a0Lehigh Acres\u00a0on\u00a0Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The area is\u00a0described as being in the vicinity of Wildcat Drive,\u00a0between State Road 82 and Corkscrew Road. It\u00a0has experienced localized flooding due to heavy rains.<\/p>\n<p>Private roads in the area are said to have been overwhelmed by the flooding.<\/p>\n<p>A declaration of emergency would allow the county to perform work, sign contracts and incur costs to take immediate action to deal with the flooding.<\/p>\n<p>Such declarations are ordered &#8220;from time to time\u00a0typically during the summer,&#8221; according to Betsy Clayton, the Lee County Communications Director.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting is at 9:30 a.m. at the Old Lee County Courthouse on Main Street.\u00a0The meeting is open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>By law, the state of local emergency is good for seven days unless commissioners vote to terminate the declaration within a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The County Commissioners will hold a special session Wednesday morning to declare of state of emergency for a section of eastern Lee County in which private roads have been overcome&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":41021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}