{"id":54139,"date":"2015-02-20T14:43:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T14:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=17a5b446835797a25b56c53c483eadf3"},"modified":"2015-02-20T14:43:33","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T14:43:33","slug":"press-release-environment-agency-warns-about-a-risk-of-localised-flooding-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=54139","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Environment Agency warns about a risk of localised flooding this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Localised disruption to travel, and some flooding of low-lying land and individual properties, is possible along the north west coast from Friday into Monday and along the north east coast on Friday and Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>The east coast and parts of the south coast, plus Devon, Cornwall and the Bristol Channel could also experience local impacts from Saturday into Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Strong winds on Sunday into Monday may also continue to affect communities along the south west and north west coasts with a risk of large waves. <\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Day, flood risk manager at the Environment Agency, said: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are monitoring the situation closely with the Met Office and will issue flood alerts and warnings as required.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s possible we could see some large waves and spray and urge people to take care near coastal paths and promenades and not to drive through flood water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople should also check their flood risk and keep up to date with the latest situation on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/check-if-youre-at-risk-of-flooding\">GOV.UK website<\/a> or follow @EnvAgency and #floodaware on Twitter for the latest flood updates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch our latest video below.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xMZfNAS3ERI&amp;feature=youtu.be\">Advice on different levels of warning film<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High tides, waves and unsettled weather may combine to bring a risk of localised flooding along the coast from Friday into Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}