{"id":118563,"date":"2026-02-20T00:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118563\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T00:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:11:15","slug":"flood-watch-issued-as-ice-jams-pennsylvania-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118563\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood Watch Issued as Ice Jams Pennsylvania Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Weather officials <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSPittsburgh\/status\/2024538299176571035?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:warned;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">warned<\/a> that warm temperatures and rain could lead to ice jams in rivers and creeks across parts of Pennsylvania on Thursday, February 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The National Weather Service (NWS) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSPittsburgh\/status\/2024538299176571035?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:issued;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">issued<\/a> a flood watch for several cities near Pittsburgh, warning that issues were \u201cmost likely\u201d to occur among the Connoquenessing, Oil, and Redbank creeks, as well as the Allegheny and Yough rivers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage filmed by Jay Dilks shows an ice jam on Oil Creek in Oil City on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIce isn\u2019t moving. It\u2019s getting pretty high,\u201d Dilks can be heard saying in the video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSPittsburgh\/status\/2024502236005450125\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:reminded;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">reminded<\/a> people to be aware of changing conditions, writing on X: \u201cIce jam flooding can come with little warning. Make sure to stay vigilant of conditions near rivers\/creeks and never drive through flooded roadways.\u201d Credit: Jay Dilks via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Weather officials warned that warm temperatures and rain could lead to ice jams in rivers and creeks across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[56255,52656,56253,3687,56254,28,30,29,56252],"class_list":{"0":"post-118563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-creeks","9":"tag-ice-jam","10":"tag-jay-dilks","11":"tag-national-weather-service","12":"tag-oil-creek","13":"tag-pennsylvania","14":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","15":"tag-pennsylvania-news","16":"tag-warm-temperatures"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}