{"id":1060,"date":"2007-07-25T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2007\/07\/25\/soggy-carpets\/"},"modified":"2007-07-25T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T18:48:00","slug":"soggy-carpets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=1060","title":{"rendered":"Soggy Carpets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07072505.jpg\" \/><br \/>Many of the houses on the Ladygrove Estate have a pile of soggy carpets in the garden. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07072506.jpg\" \/><br \/>Not just soggy carpets, but electrical appliances, sofas, cupboards&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>As Anonymous commented yesterday &#8216;<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">&#8230;the sun was out today and the water had receeded a great deal &#8211; the ock was now obeying the rules and sticking to it&#8217;s own course, leaving behind just a few pools of water to soak into the ground. however, on my walk through I could see many people piling up former possessions in black bags, and the high water marks were all too visible on the houses. the very thought of being flooded out is surreal but for the last 3 nights I had fully expected it. at least I know that my home was safe from some of the worst flooding ever&#8230;<\/span>&#8216;<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07072507.jpg\" \/><br \/>The army continue to fill sand-bags, and the Vale District Council brought round some more sand-bags today to these people in Francis Little Drive, on Ladygrove. The driver first said it was a precaution.<\/p>\n<p>One woman said &#8220;You&#8217;re not lieing to us are you. I&#8217;ve heard the radio warnings.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;I can&#8217;t say for sure, but you can probably store them away in your garage for next time they&#8217;re needed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of the houses on the Ladygrove Estate have a pile of soggy carpets in the garden. Not just soggy carpets, but electrical appliances, sofas, cupboards&#8230; As Anonymous commented yesterday &#8216;&#8230;the sun was out today and the water had receeded a great deal &#8211; the ock was now obeying the rules and sticking to it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}