{"id":873,"date":"2015-09-11T18:52:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T18:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.vwlowen.co.uk\/?p=873"},"modified":"2015-09-11T18:52:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T18:52:12","slug":"floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/?p=873","title":{"rendered":"Floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After some torrential rain last week, we woke up to find the Arrowe Brook had burst its banks again &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/misc\/water\/tracearrowebrook1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">almost exactly 7 years to the day<\/a> since last time.<\/p>\n<p>This time was worse, though, and &#8211; as usual &#8211; the authorities are blaming the unusually high rainfall. The Environment Agency rate this area as Zone 2 which means the possibility of flooding somewhere between once in a 100 years and once in a 1000 years. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vwlowen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Img_0524.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.vwlowen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Img_0524-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Img_0524\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-885\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Img_0524-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Img_0524-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Img_0524.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vwlowen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Img_0523.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.vwlowen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Img_0523-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Img_0523\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-884\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Img_0523-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Img_0523-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Img_0523.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vwlowen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Img_0522.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.vwlowen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Img_0522-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Img_0522\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-883\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Img_0522-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Img_0522-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Img_0522.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vwlowen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Img_0521.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.vwlowen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Img_0521-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Img_0521\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-882\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Img_0521-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Img_0521-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Img_0521.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vwlowen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Img_0519.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.vwlowen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Img_0519-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Img_0519\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-881\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Img_0519-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Img_0519-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Img_0519.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vwlowen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Img_0518.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.vwlowen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Img_0518-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Img_0518\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Img_0518-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Img_0518-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Img_0518.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E169V_GJakE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to our local Councillor&#8217;s website, he found a spot on the Arrowe Brook which had been dammed to allow a contractor&#8217;s vehicles to cross.  The &#8220;experts&#8221; claim that substituting the usual 6 feet x 6 feet channel with a couple of 12&#8243; land drain pipes wouldn&#8217;t have affected the water flow!  Yeah right and pigs might fly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wirralglobe.co.uk\/news\/13714514.Councillors_call_for_removal_of_makeshift__dam__following_Moreton_floods\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wirral Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chrisblakeley.com\/2015\/09\/11\/did-this-damn-contribute-to-the-floods-in-moreton-last-week\/\" target=\"_blank\">Councillor&#8217;s Website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After some torrential rain last week, we woke up to find the Arrowe Brook had burst its banks again &#8211; almost exactly 7 years to the day since last time. This time was worse, though, and &#8211; as usual &#8211; the authorities are blaming the unusually high rainfall. The Environment Agency rate this area as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-council","category-floods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":890,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}