{"id":13078,"date":"2020-02-16T11:57:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T06:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=13078"},"modified":"2020-02-16T11:57:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T06:57:29","slug":"disrupting-train-service-schools-early-half-term-holidays-flights-canceled-amid-flood-alerts-as-second-storm-in-week-hampered-life-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/13078","title":{"rendered":"Disrupting train service, schools early half-term holidays, Flights canceled amid flood alerts as second storm in week, hampered life in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"

The second storm in a week hit Britain on Saturday, prompting flooding alerts for many parts of the country and disrupting flights and train services just as many schools start their half-term holidays. The heavy rain and strong winds from Storm Dennis hit barely a week after Storm Ciara caused disruption to transport, flooded homes and left thousands without electricity.<\/p>\n

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Easy Jet has warned of \u201csignificant disruption\u201d to its operations with multiple flights canceled into Gatwick Airport while Luton Airport was advising passengers to check with their airlines before setting off from home. A total of 30 warnings were in place in England, meaning flooding was expected, and 238 alerts cautioning that flooding is possible, according to the Environment Agency.<\/p>\n

A total of 75 military personnel were helping to build barriers and repair flood defenses in Yorkshire, northern England, where the ground was already saturated from last week\u2019s rain. The government won\u2019t hesitate to use all means at its disposal to mitigate the effects of Storm Dennis, defense minister Ben Wallace.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Storm Dennis <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The second storm in a week hit Britain on Saturday, prompting flooding alerts for many parts of the country and disrupting flights and train services just as many schools start their half-term holidays. The heavy rain and strong winds from Storm Dennis hit barely a week after Storm Ciara caused disruption to transport, flooded homes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1466,31,1416],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-news","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13083,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13078\/revisions\/13083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}