{"id":401470,"date":"2026-08-08T23:58:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T23:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/401470\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T23:58:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T23:58:27","slug":"overnight-thunderstorm-forces-temporary-closure-of-el-paso-zoo-and-botanical-gardens-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/401470\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight thunderstorm forces temporary closure of El Paso Zoo and Botanical Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The El Paso Zoo and Botanical Gardens is temporarily closed Saturday, Aug. 8 after an overnight thunderstorm caused damage throughout the zoo grounds.<\/p>\n<p>According to city officials, strong winds and severe weather knocked down several trees and damaged power lines. No animals or staff members were injured.<\/p>\n<p>Crews are assessing the damage, removing debris and making necessary repairs before the zoo reopens to the public.<\/p>\n<p>El Paso Electric will be replacing four wood poles that were damaged by the storms with steel poles. El Paso Electric officials said the pairs should be complete by the evening.<\/p>\n<p>The zoo is currently scheduled to reopen Sunday during its normal operating hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/hail-damage-in-el-paso-what-drivers-should-do-after-severe-storms?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hail damage in El Paso: What drivers should do after severe storms<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The El Paso Zoo and Botanical Gardens is temporarily closed Saturday, Aug. 8 after an overnight thunderstorm caused&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-401470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}