{"id":795512,"date":"2019-05-06T16:32:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T22:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/rip-roaring-blue-river-leads-silverthorne-to-issue-warning\/"},"modified":"2019-05-06T16:32:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T22:32:01","slug":"rip-roaring-blue-river-leads-silverthorne-to-issue-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/rip-roaring-blue-river-leads-silverthorne-to-issue-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Rip-roaring Blue River leads Silverthorne to issue warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"496\" height=\"620\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Brf-RiverFlow-SDN-050719-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Brf-RiverFlow-SDN-050719-1.jpg 496w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Brf-RiverFlow-SDN-050719-1-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\"><figcaption><strong>The Blue River is running high and fast in Silverthorne, leading town officials to warn people of the dangers posed by the swiftly moving water.<\/strong><br \/><em>Courtesy of town of Silverthorne<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">With all the recent runoff, the Blue River is ripping through Silverthorne, just below Lake Dillon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A gallon of water weighs more 8 pounds and a cubic foot of water over 60 pounds. With all that weight, it\u2019s surprising how only inches of swiftly moving water can sweep someone off their feet, especially young children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Because the Blue River is running so high and fast, Silverthorne officials issued a warning via social media on Friday asking people to beware of the danger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cFollowing our big snow year, we have seen the flow of the Blue River significantly increase this week as spring runoff is well underway,\u201d the warning reads. \u201cPlease exercise caution around this swift water.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/local\/rip-roaring-blue-river-leads-silverthorne-to-issue-warning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blue River is running high and fast in Silverthorne, leading town officials to warn people of the dangers posed by the swiftly moving water.Courtesy of town of Silverthorne With all the recent runoff, the Blue River is ripping through Silverthorne, just below Lake Dillon. A gallon of water weighs more 8 pounds and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-795512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 07:45:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}