{"id":14436,"date":"2019-08-01T11:34:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T10:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=14436"},"modified":"2019-08-01T11:34:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T10:34:23","slug":"uk-weather-homes-evacuated-after-floods-in-north-of-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/uk-weather-homes-evacuated-after-floods-in-north-of-england\/","title":{"rendered":"UK weather: homes evacuated after floods in north of England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Homes have been evacuated and stranded people have been rescued as heavy rainfall causes flooding in northern England. Major incident has been declared in Cheshire after severe flooding.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Met Office said 19mm of rain fell in the North West over eight hours on Wednesday after heavy rain started on Sunday. Six flood warnings remain in place they include rivers in Poynton, Little Bollington, Heatley and Altrincham.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Move back to England they said, it will be fun they said! This was last night, thankfully the waters have now receded. Many thanks to the locals who helped and to the fire department. Let the clean up commence! <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cheshire?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Cheshire<\/a> <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bollington?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bollington<\/a> <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Flood?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Flood<\/a> <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x4gOjdczdL\">pic.twitter.com\/x4gOjdczdL<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2014 Lorna Hale (@HookeHaleKidney) <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HookeHaleKidney\/status\/1156792077239431168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2019<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Police are urging people not to ignore &#8220;road closed&#8221; signs by driving or walking through water. CFRS said: \u201cCrews and police officers are working very hard to get to those in need and the most vulnerable in our communities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On Wednesday, Poynton Fire Station had more than 20 incidents in 7 hours.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Final update for this evening. Our crews have returned home after a 7 hour stint performing rescues, salvage operations and incidents involving electrics and flood water. Our appliance has been mobilised to over 20 incidents. Our last one being a person stuck in flood water. <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0RpgCjTAht\">pic.twitter.com\/0RpgCjTAht<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2014 Poynton Fire Station (@PoyntonFS) <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PoyntonFS\/status\/1156717221437161473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2019<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> The rail line between Manchester Airport and Wilmslow, Cheshire, is currently blocked due to flooding.\u00a0The rail line between Skipton and Carlisle is\u00a0expected to reopen later\u00a0after it was blocked by a landslip.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homes have been evacuated and stranded people have been rescued as heavy rainfall causes flooding in northern England. Major incident has been declared in Cheshire after severe flooding. The Met Office said 19mm of rain fell in the North West over eight hours on Wednesday after heavy rain started on Sunday. Six flood warnings remain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":14437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[101,43,1470],"class_list":["post-14436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-uk","tag-uk-news","tag-uk-weather"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14439,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14436\/revisions\/14439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}