{"id":244,"date":"2014-02-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/02\/10\/datchet-flood-10th-11th-february-2014-river-thames-burst-banks-flooding-roads-houses\/"},"modified":"2023-08-17T09:53:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T08:53:52","slug":"datchet-flood-10th-11th-february-2014-river-thames-burst-banks-flooding-roads-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/uk-weather\/datchet-flood-10th-11th-february-2014-river-thames-burst-banks-flooding-roads-houses\/","title":{"rendered":"Datchet Flood - 10th - 11th February 2014 - River Thames Burst Its Banks Flooding Roads And Houses"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Datchet residents wake up to find their houses surrounded by water<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Severe flood warning in Place for Datchet area<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Armed forces and fire brigade called in to help with flood barriers<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Environment agency warn that river levels will continue to rise for at least 24 hours<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Property flooding is likely<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Residents of Datchet in Berkshire woke this morning to find their houses surrounded by water as water levels on the river Thames continue to rise.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en-gb\"><p>Definitely getting worse here in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23datchet&amp;src=hash\">#datchet<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lbc973\">@lbc973<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/NGTp9Q3duR\">pic.twitter.com\/NGTp9Q3duR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Swarbrick (@TomsonSwarb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomsonSwarb\/statuses\/432814414614757376\">February 10, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en-gb\"><p>Datchet this morning where people are waking up to find their houses surrounded by water <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewpeach\">@andrewpeach<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCBerkshire\">@bbcberkshire<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/gVOVCbi9mk\">pic.twitter.com\/gVOVCbi9mk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Susanne Courtney (@MrsSoose) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrsSoose\/statuses\/432777890292563968\">February 10, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are currently 14 Severe flood warnings in force for areas along the river Thames in Surrey and Berkshire. The severe flood warning for Datchet includes...\u00a0River Thames at Datchet village, including Slough Road, Eton Road, Horton Road, Southlea Road and the Datchet Common areas.<\/p>\n<p>Several roads have been closed in the area including...<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Junction of High Street, Slough Road and The Green, Datchet<\/li>\n<li>Southlea Road, Datchet<\/li>\n<li>Queen's Road, Datchet<\/li>\n<li>Pococks Lane, Eton<\/li>\n<li>Meadow Lane, Eton<\/li>\n<li>Welley Road, Wraysbury<\/li>\n<li>Horton Road, Horton<\/li>\n<li>Ferry Lane, Cookham<\/li>\n<li>Sutton Road (between Sheephouse Road and Cookham High Street)<\/li>\n<li>Station Hill, Ascot<\/li>\n<li>B447 crossing the Pound at Cookham<\/li>\n<li>Cookham Bridge<\/li>\n<li>Shepherds Lane and Mill Lane, Hurley<\/li>\n<li>Quarry Wood Lane, Bisham<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Schools closed include...<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wraysbury Primary School will be closed today and tomorrow.<\/li>\n<li>Churchmead School, in Priory Way, Datchet, is closed today, but it is hoped it will reopen on Tuesday.<\/li>\n<li>St Mary's Primary Academy, in The Green, is also closed today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Train services have also been affected.\u00a0Due to flooding at Datchet, no trains are running between Staines and Windsor &amp; Eton Riverside. As the roads are flooded, South West Trains is also unable to operate a replacement bus service. Network Rail posted a picture to Twitter this morning showing flooding on the line at Datchet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en-gb\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Datchet&amp;src=hash\">#Datchet<\/a> (Pic) showing the impact &amp; damage of the severe weather in the area.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nationalrailenq\">@nationalrailenq<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/DGMdJCFrgj\">pic.twitter.com\/DGMdJCFrgj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Network Rail (@networkrail) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/networkrail\/statuses\/432835938771668992\">February 10, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last night, armed forces and the fire brigade were in Datchet helping to build a sandbank as the level of the River Thames continues to rise.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en-gb\"><p>Sandbags arrive ready for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EnvAgencySE\">@EnvAgencySE<\/a> staff &amp; Army to build a sand bag barrier on South lea Rd <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Datchet&amp;src=hash\">#Datchet<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/FpWMv4WhEo\">pic.twitter.com\/FpWMv4WhEo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Environment AgencySE (@EnvAgencySE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EnvAgencySE\/statuses\/432585212006899712\">February 9, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For regular updates visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Weatherforecastcouk\/383144038452117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook page<\/a>, click the 'Like' button and then click the 'Follow' button. Updates will then appear in your Facebook news feed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Datchet residents wake up to find their houses surrounded by water Severe flood warning in Place for Datchet area Armed forces and fire brigade called in to help with flood barriers Environment agency warn that river levels will continue to rise for at least 24 hours Property flooding is likely Residents of Datchet in Berkshire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-weather","category-weather"],"acf":[],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1344,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/1344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}