{"id":2921,"date":"2012-11-22T16:18:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T16:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pencaitland.org\/?p=2921"},"modified":"2019-05-19T08:47:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T07:47:53","slug":"flood-alert-for-the-lothians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/flood-alert-for-the-lothians\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood alert for the Lothians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We&#8217;ve received notice of a new flood alert from Scotish Environment Protection Agency covering East  Lothian.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_2001\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2001\" style=\"width: 148px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pencaitland.org\/files\/2012\/07\/floodalertlogo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pencaitland.org\/files\/2012\/07\/floodalertlogo.png\" alt=\"A new flood alert for the lothians was issued\" width=\"148\" height=\"115\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2001\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2001\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new flood alert for the Lothians was issued<\/figcaption><\/figure>&#8220;A spell of wet and windy weather is expected throughout the region on Thursday. There is a risk of surface water flooding in built up areas and on the road network. There is also a risk of flooding from rivers and small watercourses. SEPA will continue to monitor the situation and further updates will be issued as necessary. The worst of the rain is expected to clear by Thursday evening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><H5><b>Keep your community informed<\/B><\/H5><\/p>\n<p>If you have to travel and spot a dangerous section of road please tweet details to @pencaitlandcc or to the Pencaitland Facebook <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/pencaitland\" title=\"Pencaitland on Facebook\"><strong>page<\/strong><\/a>. This way the information will automatically be passed on to others.<\/p>\n<p>Example Twitter message:<\/p>\n<p><strong>@pencaitlandcc Bend of A6093 coming into Wester #Pencaitland water over both lanes on final bend. #flood #eastlothian<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can use the same text whether sending to Twitter or posting to Facebook or Google+&#8230; whichever you prefer.<\/p>\n<p>the <strong>#<\/strong> symbol is often placed in front of keywords on Twitter in order to help people discover relevant updates. If you have room, by adding <strong>#eastlothian<\/strong> and <strong>#flood<\/strong> to your message it is more likely to be found by those looking for information on areas under water around in the county. Try to be specific, using, for example, <strong>#ormiston<\/strong> or <strong>#pencaitland<\/strong> hash tags to help geographically pinpoint where the problem is.<P><br \/><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve received notice of a new flood alert from Scotish Environment Protection Agency covering East  Lothian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,20],"tags":[13,518,824,558,833],"class_list":["post-2921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-notices","tag-east-lothian","tag-flood-alert","tag-safety","tag-sepa","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921","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=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5023,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions\/5023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}