{"id":199878,"date":"2025-09-04T15:33:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/199878\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:33:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:33:21","slug":"phoenix-offers-residents-free-sand-to-prepare-for-monsoon-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/199878\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix offers residents free sand to prepare for monsoon storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\"><b>PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2025\/09\/04\/first-alert-day-more-rain-across-arizona\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2025\/09\/04\/first-alert-day-more-rain-across-arizona\/\">rain in the forecast<\/a> Thursday and Friday while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2025\/09\/04\/damage-flooding-lingers-across-phoenix-area-after-monsoon-storm\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2025\/09\/04\/damage-flooding-lingers-across-phoenix-area-after-monsoon-storm\/\">flooding still lingers<\/a> from Wednesday\u2019s storm, the City of Phoenix is helping residents get prepared. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The City has locations across Phoenix that have sand for residents to fill bags. Sandbags could be helpful in damming or diverting floodwater from monsoon storms. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">These locations have sand free of charge, but residents will need to bring their own bags to fill and their own shovels to move the sand. <\/p>\n<ul class=\"list | article-list\">\n<li>District 1 \u2013 Paseo Highlands Park \u2013 3435 W. Pinnacle Peak Rd.<\/li>\n<li>District 2 \u2013 Paradise Valley Park \u2013 17642 N. 40th St.<\/li>\n<li>District 3 \u2013 Moon Valley Park \u2013 502 W. Coral Gables Dr.<\/li>\n<li>District 4 \u2013 Encanto Park Sports Complex \u2013 2121 N. 15th Ave.<\/li>\n<li>District 5 \u2013 El Oso Park \u2013 3451 N. 75th Ave.<\/li>\n<li>District 6 \u2013 Pecos Park \u2013 17010 S. 48th St.<\/li>\n<li>District 7 \u2013 Cesar Chavez Park \u2013 7858 S. 35th Ave.<\/li>\n<li>District 8 \u2013 Esteban Park \u2013 3345 E. Roeser Rd.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Sand is available on a first-come, first-served basis, according to the City of Phoenix. The City\u2019s Public Works Department can also provide other services to help clear debris after a storm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Because of the abundant moisture from the weakening of tropical system <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2025\/09\/03\/lorena-becomes-hurricane-off-western-coast-mexico\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2025\/09\/03\/lorena-becomes-hurricane-off-western-coast-mexico\/\">Lorena<\/a>, a Flood Watch has been issued for the Valley from noon to midnight Thursday. Storms could bring pockets of rainfall of one to two inches, leading to localized flooding. For far Southern Arizona, the Watch continues into Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AZFamily) \u2014 With rain in the forecast Thursday and Friday while flooding still lingers from Wednesday\u2019s storm,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":199879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,7182,110704,38673,1589,7183,110703,110705,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-199878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-azfamily","12":"tag-free-sand","13":"tag-monsoon","14":"tag-phoenix","15":"tag-phoenix-news","16":"tag-phoenix-sandbags","17":"tag-sand-for-storms","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115146758935721470","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}