{"id":502535,"date":"2026-10-20T19:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T19:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502535\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T19:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T19:42:10","slug":"santa-clara-valley-water-declares-emergency-before-storms-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502535\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Clara Valley Water declares emergency before storms \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Clara Valley Water declared a precautionary emergency in Santa Clara County to prepare for potentially severe winter storms and flooding.<\/p>\n<p>The declaration follows Gov. Gavin Newsom&#8217;s statewide emergency proclamation last month, which was prompted by forecasts of a strengthening El Ni\u00f1o pattern that could bring above-average rainfall to Northern California.<\/p>\n<p>The emergency allows Valley Water to quickly purchase equipment, stockpile flood supplies and secure services to protect infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Residents are encouraged to prepare emergency plans, sign up for alerts and locate free sandbag stations ahead of winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Santa Clara Valley Water declared a precautionary emergency in Santa Clara County to prepare for potentially severe winter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89,198],"class_list":["post-502535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}