{"id":98730,"date":"2025-12-29T13:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T13:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/98730\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T13:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T13:45:07","slug":"cape-coral-residents-face-water-woes-as-drought-grips-southwest-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/98730\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral residents face water woes as drought grips Southwest Florida |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bulletin: &#8230;HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH LATE<br \/>\nTUESDAY NIGHT&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>* WHAT&#8230;Dangerous rip currents expected.<\/p>\n<p>* WHERE&#8230;Pinellas, Coastal Hillsborough, Coastal Manatee,<br \/>\nCoastal Sarasota, Coastal Charlotte and Coastal Lee Counties.<\/p>\n<p>* WHEN&#8230;From this evening through late Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>* IMPACTS&#8230;Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away<br \/>\nfrom shore into deeper water.<\/p>\n<p>PRECAUTIONARY\/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and<br \/>\nfloat. Don&#8217;t swim against the current. If able, swim in a<br \/>\ndirection following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the<br \/>\nshore and call or wave for help.<\/p>\n<p>&amp;&amp;<\/p>\n<p>Info: <\/p>\n<p>Type: Rip Current Statement<\/p>\n<p>start_time_local: 2025-12-29T21:00:00-05:00<\/p>\n<p>end_time_local: 2025-12-31T01:00:00-05:00<\/p>\n<p>county_name: <\/p>\n<p>state: FL<\/p>\n<p>headline: Rip Current Statement from MON 9:00 PM EST until WED 1:00 AM EST<\/p>\n<p>county_fips: <\/p>\n<p>category: Met<\/p>\n<p>url: <\/p>\n<p>urgency: Expected<\/p>\n<p>severity: Moderate<\/p>\n<p>certainty: Likely<\/p>\n<p>geographicname: Coastal Lee County<\/p>\n<p>state_name: Florida<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bulletin: &#8230;HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH LATE TUESDAY NIGHT&#8230; * WHAT&#8230;Dangerous rip currents&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,12766],"class_list":{"0":"post-98730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news","11":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98730","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=98730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}