{"id":322,"date":"2014-12-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/12\/22\/kilmarnock-flood-december-22nd-2014-pictures-flooding\/"},"modified":"2023-08-17T09:53:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T08:53:19","slug":"kilmarnock-flood-december-22nd-2014-pictures-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/uk-weather\/kilmarnock-flood-december-22nd-2014-pictures-flooding\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilmarnock Flood December 22nd 2014 - Pictures Of Flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning (22nd December 2014) the river Irvine in East Ayrshire has burst its banks, bringing severe flooding to parts of the town of Kilmarnock.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, 42 were stranded in an ASDA supermarket, and had to be rescued by fire services, after flood water surrounded the building. 40 adults and 2 children were rescued from the store on rigid inflatable rafts.<\/p>\n<p>Rail services have been disrupted, Roads have been closed and homes evacuated. Police have confirmed residents in New Cumnock's Mason Avenue, Mansfield Road and Pathbrae were evacuated from their homes on this morning amid the flooding conditions.<\/p>\n<p>A Met office Yellow warning of rain remains in force until tomorrow afternoon for the following regions Central, Tayside & Fife, North West England, Northern Ireland, SW Scotland, Lothian Borders, Strathclyde, Wales, Yorkshire & Humber.<\/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<div class=\"flex-video\">\n   <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YVp_o3WJ7W0?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pictures of the flooding in Kilmarnock have appeared on Twitter this morning...<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en-gb\">\n<p>Update: Residents evacuated, roads closed, train lines disrupted as Scotland hit by flooding <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/VLbwQP6pxM\">http:\/\/t.co\/VLbwQP6pxM<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/InPwljvp83\">pic.twitter.com\/InPwljvp83<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; STV News (@STVNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/STVNews\/status\/547027065804181504\">December 22, 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>Flooding south of Mauchline on the G&amp;SW line. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlastairDalton\">@AlastairDalton<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nationalrailenq\">@nationalrailenq<\/a> No trains Kilmarnock-Dumfries. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/DuBN1wprWB\">pic.twitter.com\/DuBN1wprWB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lord Montague (@UnionOnion) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UnionOnion\/status\/547002440844070916\">December 22, 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>Flooding photos from Kilmarnock, where shoppers are stranded &#10;[via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CiaranGall93\">@CiaranGall93<\/a>] <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/Zqh0dwrWDO\">pic.twitter.com\/Zqh0dwrWDO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC Radio 5 live (@bbc5live) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbc5live\/status\/546961916074405888\">December 22, 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>Homes evacuated at Chapman&#39;s Terrace in Kilmarnock due to major flooding. (our reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VickyMurray76\">@VickyMurray76<\/a> is there) <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/EFYKGBMAeN\">pic.twitter.com\/EFYKGBMAeN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WestFMNews (@WestFMNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WestFMNews\/status\/546972071012470785\">December 22, 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>Your pictures of the flooding in Kilmarnock. 35 stranded in Asda during wind\/rain. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/xO1wU0qi3w\">pic.twitter.com\/xO1wU0qi3w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WestFMNews (@WestFMNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WestFMNews\/status\/546959241651965952\">December 22, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/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>This morning (22nd December 2014) the river Irvine in East Ayrshire has burst its banks, bringing severe flooding to parts of the town of Kilmarnock. Earlier, 42 were stranded in an ASDA supermarket, and had to be rescued by fire services, after flood water surrounded the building. 40 adults and 2 children were rescued from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","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\/322","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=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1307,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/1307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}