{"id":71574,"date":"2024-01-04T23:32:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T23:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/?p=71574"},"modified":"2024-01-04T23:32:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T23:32:15","slug":"clean-up-operation-underway-again-after-heavy-rain-causes-floods-and-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/clean-up-operation-underway-again-after-heavy-rain-causes-floods-and-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean-up operation underway &#8211; again &#8211; after heavy rain causes floods and chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another big clean-up operation is underway today, Friday, after heavy rain caused floods and chaos in Dorset &#8211; for the second time this week.<\/p>\n<p>Roads were closed, cars stranded and public transport severely disrupted as just under 28 millimetres of rain fell in 12 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Flooding around the Royal Bournemouth Hospital site, including the Cooper Dean roundabout, affected traffic leaving the hospital at Castle Lane East causing severe congestion.<\/p>\n<p>The Isle of Purbeck was a virtual island after the A351 in Corfe Castle became impassable.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic on the A35 at the Bakers Arms roundabout, and adjoining roads, was also affected by floods.<\/p>\n<p>A flood warning has been issued for the Lower Avon from Ringwood to Christchurch and the Lower Stour from Sturminster Marshall to Christchurch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another big clean-up operation is underway today after heavy rain caused floods and chaos in Dorset &#8211; for the second time this week.<\/p>\n<p>Roads were closed, cars stranded and public transport severely disrupted as just under 28 millimetres of rain fell in 12 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Flooding around the Royal Bournemouth Hospital site, including the Cooper Dean roundabout, affected traffic leaving the hospital at Castle Lane East causing severe congestion.<\/p>\n<p>The Isle of Purbeck became a virtual island after the A351 in Corfe Castle became impassable while the A35 at the Bakers Arms roundabout was also flooded.<\/p>\n<p>A flood warning has been issued for the Lower Avon from Ringwood to Christchurch and the Lower Stour from Sturminster Marshall to Christchurch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":71575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,156,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bournemouth","category-christchurch","category-news","category-ringwood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71577,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71574\/revisions\/71577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}