{"id":30540,"date":"2023-04-02T15:20:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T14:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30540"},"modified":"2023-04-02T15:20:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T14:20:19","slug":"tesco-closed-because-of-floodings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30540","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Tesco closed because of flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023040214.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThis morning, the heavy rain from Friday along the River Ock valley had flooded the Tesco car park and access roads.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023040201.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThis store was closed, and shop workers were sent home.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023040205.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nPart of the new Premier Inn car park has also flooded, but the building is above the water.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023040212.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe water also approached the gardens and houses of\u00a0the Ladygrove estate.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023040202.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThis picture was taken at around noon today, near the peak. People were still checking the water level, hoping there would be no repeat of 2007.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023040216.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere had been a dramatic rise in water levels overnight, which peaked at around noon. (Thanks to the EA monitoring station <a href=\"https:\/\/check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk\/station\/7081\">https:\/\/check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk\/station\/7081<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, the heavy rain from Friday along the River Ock valley had flooded the Tesco car park and access roads. This store was closed, and shop workers were sent home. Part of the new Premier Inn car park has also flooded, but the building is above the water. The water also approached the gardens [&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-30540","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\/30540","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=30540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}