{"id":870,"date":"2008-01-18T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T08:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2008\/01\/18\/sandbags-out-again\/"},"modified":"2008-01-18T08:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T08:31:00","slug":"sandbags-out-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=870","title":{"rendered":"Sandbags out again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08011804.jpg\" \/><br \/>There were worries yesterday about whether parts of South Abingdon would flood again because of the River Ock (I note on the Environment Agency web site the River Ock is still only at &#8216;flood watch&#8217; not &#8216;flood warning&#8217;. )<\/p>\n<p>These pictures are from this morning at about 8. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08011803.jpg\" \/><br \/>Sandbags have been put out again. Supplies are available from near Homebase on the Fairacres estate. This is St Helen&#8217;s Mill where the water was rushing against the sides of the building last summer. It has breached the bank a little this time despite the bags. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08011812.jpg\" \/><br \/>For advice about using sandbags watch this video.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08011801.jpg\" \/><br \/>The River Thames is high but it affects far fewer properties in Abingdon than the River Ock. The wide flood plain the other side ensures for each inch it creeps up this side, it has to go some way the other side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were worries yesterday about whether parts of South Abingdon would flood again because of the River Ock (I note on the Environment Agency web site the River Ock is still only at &#8216;flood watch&#8217; not &#8216;flood warning&#8217;. ) These pictures are from this morning at about 8. Sandbags have been put out again. Supplies [&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-870","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\/870","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=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}