{"id":221758,"date":"2025-05-11T15:14:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T19:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=221758"},"modified":"2025-05-11T15:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T19:14:06","slug":"flash-flooding-threatens-candler-county-as-heavy-rain-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=221758","title":{"rendered":"Flash Flooding Threatens Candler County As Heavy Rain Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Residents in Candler County face dangerous flooding conditions today as heavy rainfall continues to drench the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83c\udf27\ufe0f <strong>Why It Matters:<\/strong> Floodwaters have already covered several roads in the Metter area, creating potentially life-threatening situations for drivers who attempt to cross. Most flood deaths occur when people drive through standing water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udea8 <strong>What&#8217;s Happening:<\/strong> The National Weather Service in Charleston extended a flood advisory for Candler County until 1:45 p.m. today. Weather officials report up to 5 inches of rain has already fallen near Metter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\ude97 <strong>Between the Lines:<\/strong> The flooding impacts more than just Candler County. <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"\/county\/Bulloch\"   title=\"Bulloch\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"1490\">Bulloch<\/a>, Evans, Jenkins, Screven and Tattnall counties also face similar conditions as the storm system moves through southeast Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 <strong>The Big Picture:<\/strong> Low-lying areas, poor drainage zones and smaller roads face the highest risk. Communities including Metter, Pulaski and Register are experiencing the worst conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=5]\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents in Candler County face dangerous flooding conditions today as heavy rainfall continues to drench the area. \ud83c\udf27\ufe0f Why It Matters: Floodwaters have already covered several roads in the Metter area, creating potentially life-threatening situations for drivers who attempt to cross. Most flood deaths occur when people drive through standing water. \ud83d\udea8 What&#8217;s Happening: The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":209633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6067],"tags":[10022,9252],"class_list":["post-221758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather","tag-flooding","tag-rain","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}