{"id":1063,"date":"2007-07-23T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2007\/07\/23\/save-our-flood-plain\/"},"modified":"2007-07-23T21:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T21:28:00","slug":"save-our-flood-plain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=1063","title":{"rendered":"Save our Flood Plain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07072401.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">&#8220;Here we are reporting in Abingdon&#8230;&#8221;<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The flood plain stretches behind the ITV reporter.<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07072402.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The crowds,  on the bridge, watch some rescue boats helping a boat in difficulty. Most of the boats however are secured with the help of poles installed by a local scaffolding firm. (Dunkirk spirit)<\/p>\n<p>There is no large flood in town yet. The large flood plain on the other side of the River Thames does help. For every inch the water rises on the town side it has to spread half a mile on the other.<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07072403.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Famous buildings have escaped so far. The museum basement got flooded during the deluge on Friday &#8211; but that is not very visible from outside.<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07072408.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>But some of the, soon to be built, buildings were not quite so lucky. This is the new development next to the River Ock on the Drayton Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Here we are reporting in Abingdon&#8230;&#8221; The flood plain stretches behind the ITV reporter. The crowds, on the bridge, watch some rescue boats helping a boat in difficulty. Most of the boats however are secured with the help of poles installed by a local scaffolding firm. (Dunkirk spirit) There is no large flood in town [&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-1063","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\/1063","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=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}