{"id":26480,"date":"2020-12-26T16:41:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T16:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26480"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:41:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T16:41:05","slug":"boxing-day-covid-19-tier-4-and-floods-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26480","title":{"rendered":"Boxing Day &#8211; Entering Covid-19 Tier four and Floods round Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20122601.jpg\" alt=\"Boxing Day Floods\" \/><br \/>\nOxfordshire went into Covid-19 tier four today. Under tier four, non-essential shops, gyms, hairdressers and indoor entertainment venues must close. This meant that Boxing Day Sales could not go ahead at Fatface.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20122603.jpg\" alt=\"Boxing Day Floods\" \/><br \/>\nThe traditional Boxing Day MG gathering on the Market Place was also missing.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20122605.jpg\" alt=\"Boxing Day Floods\" \/><br \/>\nWater levels continued to rise during Christmas Day. By Boxing Day, anybody out for a walk round Abingdon could not complete a circular walk as the return path was underwater.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20122614.jpg\" alt=\"Boxing Day Floods\" \/><br \/>\nPeople were struggling with boats. Some were banging pegs into firmer ground.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20122615.jpg\" alt=\"Boxing Day Floods\" \/><br \/>\nOthers were adjusting ropes to get the boat level.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20122609a.jpg\" alt=\"Boxing Day Floods\" \/><br \/>\nIn Rye Farm Car Park some unfortunate car owners will have found their cars underwater.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20122617a.jpg\" alt=\"Boxing Day Floods\" \/><br \/>\nFlood tourists came to see the floods in Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20122620.jpg\" alt=\"Boxing Day Floods\" \/><br \/>\nThe new flood prevention wall near St Helen&#8217;s Mill may have stopped water flowing in from the banks, but\u00a0 water had welled up some other way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxfordshire went into Covid-19 tier four today. Under tier four, non-essential shops, gyms, hairdressers and indoor entertainment venues must close. This meant that Boxing Day Sales could not go ahead at Fatface. The traditional Boxing Day MG gathering on the Market Place was also missing. Water levels continued to rise during Christmas Day. By Boxing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26480","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=26480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}