{"id":2312,"date":"2012-09-25T09:50:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T08:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pencaitland.org\/?p=2312"},"modified":"2019-05-19T08:52:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T07:52:31","slug":"swollen-tyne-bursts-banks-in-pencaitland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/swollen-tyne-bursts-banks-in-pencaitland\/","title":{"rendered":"Swollen Tyne bursts banks in Pencaitland (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Tyne bursts its banks at Pencaitland\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7274\/7418868592_4699eb043a_q.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Tyne bursts its banks at Pencaitland<\/figcaption><\/figure><strong>After a night of high winds and incessant rain it was little surprise that the river Tyne at Pencaitland once again broke its banks with the swell.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In just a few hours the river went from a gentle and shallow meandering stream into a swollen muddy mass of water. This has become a fairly regular occurrence in recent years leaving parts of the river pathway annually inundated and weakening the river bank. <\/p>\n<p>However, it is Haddington, further downstream which is currently under threat from the swelling waters of the Tyne. Further details on the situation can be found by checking the Scottish Environment Protection Agency&#8217;s updates page for the <a href=\"http:\/\/floodline.sepa.org.uk\/floodupdates\/info\/group-id\/4830\" title=\"Flood updates from SEPA\"><strong>Lothians<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tyne Bridge in Pencaitland - river bursts its banks after overnight rain\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q8LDMjUy93o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Having trouble viewing the video? See it on the Pencaitland channel on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q8LDMjUy93o\" title=\"Youtube\"><strong>Youtube<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a night of high winds and incessant rain it was little surprise that the river Tyne at Pencaitland once again broke its banks with the swell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,6,341,490,491,833],"class_list":["post-2312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-east-lothian","tag-pencaitland","tag-rain","tag-river","tag-tyne","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5060,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions\/5060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}