{"id":3476,"date":"2017-06-21T13:17:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T20:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=3476"},"modified":"2017-06-21T13:17:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T20:17:51","slug":"california-heat-wave-sending-record-snow-melt-surging-into-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=3476","title":{"rendered":"California Heat Wave Sending Record Snow Melt Surging Into Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The heat wave is melting snow in the Sierra, which is bringing freezing cold <span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">water<\/span><\/span> into the valley\u2019s lakes, streams and rivers.<\/p>\n<p>The effects of the snowmelt can also be deadly and proved so on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this <span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">fast<\/span><\/span> moving water it does not take long for someone to get in trouble,\u201d said State Parks Ranger Scott Liske.<\/p>\n<p>Liske says a group of friends from Sacramento was swimming in the main channel of the North Fork when one of them drowned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe went downstream, and his friends ran after him, telling him to grab o to something. He did go under the surface and did not come back up,\u201d Liske said.<\/p>\n<p>Liske couldn\u2019t identify the victim but says he was 20-years old. The heavy flows are also a concern at the Yuba River in Nevada County.<\/p>\n<p>The heavy flows are also a concern at the Yuba River in Nevada County.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the things we are concerned about is not just the issues in the upper elevations; as the <span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">snow<\/span><\/span> starts to melt it finds its way down to the lower elevations,\u201d said Nevada County Spokesman Joshua Pack.<\/p>\n<p>Pack says he often sees people jumping into the river like it\u2019s a swimming pool.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was over 100 degrees yesterday, definitely not hanging out at my place,\u201d said Brian, who came to swim in the river to cool off.<\/p>\n<p>He says he knows what to look out for, so he doesn\u2019t end up under water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeeping close to the edge, definitely not going into the white part, try not to be swept away too quickly,\u201d Brian added.<\/p>\n<p>More at <a href=\"http:\/\/sacramento.cbslocal.com\/2017\/06\/20\/california-heat-wave-sending-record-snow-melt-surging-into-rivers\/\">CBSLocal.com<\/a> &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heat wave is melting snow in the Sierra, which is bringing freezing cold water into the valley\u2019s lakes, streams and rivers. The effects of the snowmelt can also be deadly and proved so on Tuesday. \u201cWith this fast moving water it does not take long for someone to get in trouble,\u201d said State Parks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=3476\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">California Heat Wave Sending Record Snow Melt Surging Into Rivers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,209,12,3,9,6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-trail","category-boating","category-fish","category-rafting","category-safety","category-water","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3477,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions\/3477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}