{"id":406216,"date":"2026-02-03T20:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/406216\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T20:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:44:12","slug":"charminster-drone-photos-show-impact-of-storm-chandra-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/406216\/","title":{"rendered":"Charminster drone photos show impact of Storm Chandra flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Drone images have shown widespread flooding in a Dorset village following Storm Chandra. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pictures, taken by Eric Bird, reveal homes still surrounded by water in Charminster, near Dorchester, after the River Cerne burst its banks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Residents say it is the worst flooding they have seen in the village.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A meeting is being held later to discuss how the community can better prepare for further severe weather, with Charminster Parish Council confirming it is developing an official emergency plan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drone images have shown widespread flooding in a Dorset village following Storm Chandra. The pictures, taken by Eric&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-406216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406216","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=406216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}