{"id":965481,"date":"2024-07-12T17:14:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T17:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=965481"},"modified":"2024-07-12T17:14:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T17:14:06","slug":"saws-warns-of-gale-force-winds-for-garden-route-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/saws-warns-of-gale-force-winds-for-garden-route-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"SAWS warns of gale force winds for Garden Route this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has issued a warning of strong to gale force winds for the Garden Route that straddles the Eastern and Western Capes this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy winds and high waves are expected from Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Winds earlier this week caused mass power outages, damaged electrical lines and uprooted trees in George.<\/p>\n<p>Municipality spokesperson Ntobeko Mangqwengqwe says the George municipality continues addressing various power outages and the cleanup of fallen trees. Currently, no roads are closed. We are addressing a number of power outages in parts of George and Wilderness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The George Municipality continues addressing various power outages and the cleanup of fallen trees. Currently, no roads are closed.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iaH9byZDs2\">https:\/\/t.co\/iaH9byZDs2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 George Municipality (@george_mun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/george_mun\/status\/1811720583320629318?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\"><strong>Heavy downpours continue in the Western Cape<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7VQ318NPjwE?si=Ew1hR4BMBv379oAl\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAWS has issued a warning of strong to gale force winds for the Garden Route<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":965482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[1172,1173],"class_list":["post-965481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa","tag-bad-weather","tag-cold-weather-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}