{"id":797,"date":"2012-01-03T18:47:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T17:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcarbon.co.uk\/?p=797"},"modified":"2019-05-19T09:01:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T08:01:17","slug":"weathering-the-storm-high-winds-race-through-pencaitland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/weathering-the-storm-high-winds-race-through-pencaitland\/","title":{"rendered":"Weathering the storm &#8211; high winds race through Pencaitland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s winds came as quite a surprise to a number of villagers. Reports earlier today said that there could be gusts as high as 95mph across parts of the central belt, with structural damage expected. There were unconfirmed reports of gusts of over 100mph in Edinburgh.<\/strong><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ralphaverbuch\/tags\/janstormelothian\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7012\/6629127331_cba583a8f0_m.jpg\" alt=\"Storm Damage - click for a few more pictures\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Fortunately, unlike the last blast, this storm, whilst even more intense than the one before Christmas, blew out much more quickly.<\/p>\n<p>A quick glance around Pencaitland after the worst had passed showed some roofs missing tiles and the Spar shop&#8217;s sign which shattered in the highest winds, also losing some of the guttering from the structure over the petrol pumps. That aside, so far the bulk of the wind damage appears to be tree-related.<\/p>\n<p>In this <a href=\"http:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/weathering-the-storm-high-winds-race-through-pencaitland\/\" title=\"Video\"><strong>video<\/strong><\/a> you can see the damage to the Spar shop&#8217;s sign as the canopy over the petrol pumps rocks back and forth.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Further afield, a number of trees were uprooted in the woods with large quantities of shattered branches strewn across the footpaths.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Did you suffer any damage in these latest high winds? Please let us know by <a href=\"http:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/weathering-the-storm-high-winds-race-through-pencaitland\/#respond\" title=\"Leave a comment\">leaving a comment<\/a> below.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pencaitland Community Council<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/pencaitlandcc\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com\/twitter-c.png\" alt=\"Follow Pencaitland Community Council on Twitter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s winds came as quite a surprise to a number of villagers. Reports earlier today said that there could be gusts as high as 95mph across parts of the central belt, with structural damage expected. There are unconfirmed reports of gusts of over 100mph in Edinburgh.<\/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":[27,127,13,231,6,398,833,458],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-27","tag-damage","tag-east-lothian","tag-january","tag-pencaitland","tag-storm","tag-weather","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","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=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5175,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/5175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}