{"id":266987,"date":"2026-05-11T19:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/266987\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T19:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:08:07","slug":"st-lucie-county-tax-collectors-offices-closing-at-2-p-m-because-of-severe-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/266987\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Lucie County Tax Collector&#8217;s Offices closing at 2 p.m. because of severe weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 St. Lucie County Tax Collector offices will close early Monday as severe weather is expected to move through the area later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Tax Collector Chris Craft announced offices will shut down at 2 p.m. in anticipation of strong to severe storms forecast between 3 p.m. and 11 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Forecasters warn the system could bring damaging winds exceeding 60 mph, hail up to an inch in size and the potential for tornadoes.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/florida-crime-news-jeffrey-epstein-treated-survivors-prostitutes-lois-frankel-ahead-of-epstein-hearing-palm-beach-robert-garcia-democrats-house-oversight-committee-survivors-ghislaine-maxwells-crimes-human-rights-activist-redistricting-controversy-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;Treated survivors like prostitutes,&#8217; Rep. Frankel says ahead of WPB Epstein hearing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, but the safety of our customers and team members is our top priority,\u201d Craft said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said many services will remain available online at <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/tcslc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tcslc.com<\/a> during the closure.<\/p>\n<p>Offices are expected to reopen Tuesday at 9 a.m. for normal business hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 St. Lucie County Tax Collector offices will close early Monday as severe weather&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-266987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}