{"id":84,"date":"2010-02-05T00:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T00:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2010\/02\/05\/flood-action-and-action-4-abingdon\/"},"modified":"2010-02-05T00:52:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T00:52:00","slug":"flood-action-and-action-4-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Flood Action and Action 4 Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10020405.jpg\" \/><br \/>This is the scene looking up Caldecott Road today. One of the drainage ditches &#8211; put there to prevent flooding &#8211; is looking a little clogged up and far worse round the corner where there looks to have been a mudslide.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight (Friday) a new group is meeting at Preston Road Community Centre at 7:30 PM. It is called the Ock Valley Flood Group and I would not be surprised if they push for action on drainage ditches. People at risk of flooding by the Ock should have been invited, but if not &#8211; communication is not always brilliant in Abingdon &#8211; all are welcome. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile a happy second birthday to Action 4 Abingdon &#8211; set up just two years ago today.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10020406.jpg\" \/><br \/>I did not find many pictures on the forum but did borrow this one with the caption &#8230; &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">After many months of deliberation, the traffic scheme group came up with a new layout that was sure to please everyone<\/span>.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The latest big issue is the future of the Chamber of Commerce as a new group is set up. Everyone wants a group that represents ALL town businesses but not everyone appears agreed about who should run it. The Heralds front page story this week is <em>&#8216;Traders Set up new town body<\/em>.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the scene looking up Caldecott Road today. One of the drainage ditches &#8211; put there to prevent flooding &#8211; is looking a little clogged up and far worse round the corner where there looks to have been a mudslide. Tonight (Friday) a new group is meeting at Preston Road Community Centre at 7:30 [&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-84","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\/84","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=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}