{"id":197,"date":"2013-10-28T10:09:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T10:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/?p=197"},"modified":"2013-10-28T10:09:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T10:09:13","slug":"hurrican-st-jude-visits-thamesmead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/about-the-area\/hurrican-st-jude-visits-thamesmead\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurrican St Jude visits Thamesmead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m stranded at home today due to storms. The local train line, Southeastern, likes to make itself very unaccountable when there&#8217;s a threat of bad weather, and it just shuts down its services all together until further notice. This meant that during predicted heavy snow, even when not a single flake had fallen, there was no service in a recent winter.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair the predicted storms did sound pretty dreadful. On the other hand, they didn&#8217;t seem to manifest locally with even near the suggested severity. My partner is trying to get to work and has been for two hours. He&#8217;s on a trapped DLR train approaching Bank and not having much fun at all. Our bin was blown to a slightly different angle but nothing much seemed amiss when we got up this morning. I went and shifted some potted shrubs that were taking the brunt of the wind at 7.30am.<\/p>\n<!-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v. 2.0.39 -->\n<div class=\"quads-location quads-ad1\" id=\"quads-ad1\" style=\"float:none;margin:5px;\">\n\n <!-- WP QUADS - Quick AdSense Reloaded v.2.0.39 Content AdSense async --> \n\n\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" >\nvar quads_screen_width = document.body.clientWidth;\nif ( quads_screen_width >= 1140 ) {document.write('<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"pub-5465671415307957\" data-ad-slot=\"5861226924\" ><\/ins>');\r\n            (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n            }if ( quads_screen_width >= 1024  && quads_screen_width < 1140 ) {document.write('<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"pub-5465671415307957\" data-ad-slot=\"5861226924\" ><\/ins>');\r\n            (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n            }if ( quads_screen_width >= 768  && quads_screen_width < 1024 ) {document.write('<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"pub-5465671415307957\" data-ad-slot=\"5861226924\" ><\/ins>');\r\n            (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n            }if ( quads_screen_width < 768 ) {document.write('<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"pub-5465671415307957\" data-ad-slot=\"5861226924\" ><\/ins>');\r\n            (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n            }\n<\/script>\n\n <!-- end WP QUADS --> \n\n\n<\/div>\n\n<p>However, upon heading round the corner, my boyfriend was faced with a very real example of what the storm had been up to overnight, and he suggested I come and take a few pictures of the fallen willow tree nearby. On my way back I passed a neighbour with a saw, trying to remove bits of the tree from next door that had moved into his garden.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some pictures:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hawkida\/10554565714\/\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m stranded at home today due to storms. The local train line, Southeastern, likes to make itself very unaccountable when there&#8217;s a threat of bad weather, and it just shuts down its services all together until further notice. This meant &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/about-the-area\/hurrican-st-jude-visits-thamesmead\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}