{"id":3735,"date":"2013-05-20T16:08:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T15:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pencaitland.org\/?p=3735"},"modified":"2019-05-19T08:47:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T07:47:39","slug":"expect-significant-disruption-from-showers-later-this-afternoon-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/expect-significant-disruption-from-showers-later-this-afternoon-evening\/","title":{"rendered":"Expect significant disruption from showers later this afternoon &#038; evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This afternoon will see heavy and isolated quite intense showers develop across East Lothian. These are expected to start after lunchtime and continue into the early evening.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_2001\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2001\" style=\"width: 148px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><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\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2001\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new flood alert for the Lothians was issued<\/figcaption><\/figure>These showers may lead to some minor surface water problems and could lead to travel disruption and ponding of lying water in known trouble spots.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the intensity and local nature of the showers smaller watercourses may see some flooding issues.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency people should, &#8220;remain vigilant and remember, it is your responsibility to take actions which help protect yourself and your property.  Advice and information is available through Floodline on 0845 9881188&#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>This afternoon will see heavy and isolated quite intense showers develop across East Lothian. These are expected to start after lunchtime and continue into the early evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,180,558,837,833],"class_list":["post-3735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-east-lothian","tag-flooding","tag-sepa","tag-warning","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735","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=3735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4965,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735\/revisions\/4965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}