{"id":305,"date":"2014-10-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/10\/08\/flooding-kent-8th-october-2014-parts-tunbridge-wells-strrod-flooded\/"},"modified":"2023-08-17T09:53:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T08:53:25","slug":"flooding-kent-8th-october-2014-parts-tunbridge-wells-strrod-flooded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/uk-weather\/flooding-kent-8th-october-2014-parts-tunbridge-wells-strrod-flooded\/","title":{"rendered":"Flooding In Kent - 8th October 2014 - Parts Of Tunbridge Wells and Strood Flooded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy rain has been moving across the UK this morning bringing surface flooding, and even a mini-tornado to parts of Kent.<\/p>\n<p>Worst affected have been Strood, where overflowing drains on Darnley Road have caused severe surface flooding, Tunbridge Wells, where surface flooding on Pantiles, Nevill Street is causing traffic, and Rochester, where a mini-tornado has uprooted several trees.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en-gb\">\n<p>Did you experience this possible tornado in Rochester? Let us know! &quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kent_Online\">@Kent_Online<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/weather?src=hash\">#weather<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/uXwJxiGHri\">http:\/\/t.co\/uXwJxiGHri<\/a>\u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/UNvE2eduug\">pic.twitter.com\/UNvE2eduug<\/a>&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TORRO (@TorroUK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TorroUK\/status\/519825444938719232\">October 8, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en-gb\">\n<p>TUNBRIDGE WELLS: Pantiles, Nevill Street, has flooded again. Pic <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/denyofiniquity\">@denyofiniquity<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/sRkCu68jl6\">pic.twitter.com\/sRkCu68jl6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kent 999s (@Kent_999s) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kent_999s\/status\/519763224921526272\">October 8, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Heavy showers are expected to continue into the afternoon and will almost certainly bring more risk of surface flooding in Kent and elsewhere in the UK. Drivers are advised to be cautious and to avoid driving through flood water.<\/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>Heavy rain has been moving across the UK this morning bringing surface flooding, and even a mini-tornado to parts of Kent. Worst affected have been Strood, where overflowing drains on Darnley Road have caused severe surface flooding, Tunbridge Wells, where surface flooding on Pantiles, Nevill Street is causing traffic, and Rochester, where a mini-tornado has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","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\/305","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=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}