{"id":843283,"date":"2026-08-02T23:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T23:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/843283\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T23:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T23:15:14","slug":"strong-wind-shuts-down-day-2-of-edmontons-heritage-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/843283\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong wind shuts down day 2 of Edmonton&#8217;s Heritage Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not been an ideal return to Hawrelak Park for the Edmonton Heritage Festival. <\/p>\n<p>Organizers were forced to close early on the second day because of strong winds and ordered attendees to evacuate the area immediately.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The tents are becoming unsafe and have been blowing away,&#8221; the festival said on its Facebook page.  &#8220;For those at the park, please evacuate immediately towards ETS park-and-ride.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>For the last few years, Heritage Fest was held in Borden Park, as Hawrelak Park underwent extensive renovation. This was the first year the festival is back at Hawrelak. <\/p>\n<p>A large chunk of central Alberta is currently under a wind warning, with expected windspeeds on Sunday reaching up to 90 kilometres an hour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With recent heavy rainfall and saturated soils, trees may be more vulnerable to damage,&#8221; Environment Canada said in its alert. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Winds will weaken this evening. Local utility outages are possible. High-sided vehicles will be pushed around by the wind. Some property damage is possible. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-843283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}