{"id":393000,"date":"2026-01-27T10:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/393000\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T10:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:59:08","slug":"school-closures-and-flooding-as-storm-chandra-brings-heavy-rain-and-wind-to-devon-and-cornwall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/393000\/","title":{"rendered":"School closures and flooding as Storm Chandra brings heavy rain and wind to Devon and Cornwall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Environment Agency records &#8216;significant rainfall&#8217;published at 10:17 GMT<\/p>\n<p>10:17 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The River Otter in Ottery St Mary, Devon, has reached its highest recorded level, according to the Environment Agency&#8217;s area duty manager for Devon and Cornwall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ben Johnstone said: &#8220;It&#8217;s been very wet overnight. We&#8217;ve currently got 16 flood alerts, 29 flood warnings and one severe flood warning in force and&#8230; significant rainfall falling on already wet catchments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The main impacts have been felt towards East Devon, the Otter and the River Axe; and, at Ottery St Mary, it has reached the highest recorded level we&#8217;ve had there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;We&#8217;ve had teams in throughout yesterday and through the night monitoring river levels and issuing flood warnings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;After the event, we&#8217;ll then go out and check our defences&#8230; and review what has actually happened to understand the impact and how we can provide help and support.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Environment Agency records &#8216;significant rainfall&#8217;published at 10:17 GMT 10:17 GMT The River Otter in Ottery St Mary, Devon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-393000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}