{"id":64084,"date":"2015-11-12T18:50:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T18:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=c02296a705f74f6227e1cc732293d5ab"},"modified":"2015-11-12T18:50:20","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T18:50:20","slug":"news-story-people-urged-to-be-prepared-for-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=64084","title":{"rendered":"News story: People urged to be prepared for flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Heavy and persistent rainfall is expected to affect parts of northern England on Saturday evening and into Sunday bringing a risk of significant river and localised surface water flooding for northern England and the Midlands.  <\/p>\n<p>The Environment Agency is monitoring the situation closely and will issue flood alerts and warnings if required. We have teams out on the ground, clearing blockages in rivers and culverts.<\/p>\n<p>The public are urged not to drive through flood water. We encourage drivers to check the flood risk for their entire route before they travel.<\/p>\n<p>People should check their flood risk and keep up to date with the latest situation at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/check-if-youre-at-risk-of-flooding\">https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/check-if-youre-at-risk-of-flooding<\/a> or follow @EnvAgency and #floodaware on Twitter for the latest flood updates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Environment Agency warns people to be flood aware following Met Office forecasts of signficant downpours this weekend.<\/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\/64084"}],"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=64084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}