{"id":7112,"date":"2019-08-20T09:27:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T08:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7112"},"modified":"2022-12-28T14:19:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T14:19:04","slug":"highland-council-admits-it-cant-cope-with-wet-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/08\/20\/highland-council-admits-it-cant-cope-with-wet-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Highland Council Admits It Can&#8217;t Cope With Wet Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/floodwater.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7562\" width=\"250\" height=\"272\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Council Flood Mess<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In an astounding confession Highland Council has admitted that it can&#8217;t cope with a bit of rain and homes and businesses will just have to flood. The kitty has been spent on consultations for a Soviet Era Berlin Wall to wreck the beautiful River Ness. The idea is to concrete the popular natural riverside to provide a space for drunks, druggies and graffiti vandals to make a mess. Naturally there is no money left for flood prevention, elderly care, disabled care or anything else that is really important.<\/p><div id=\"lochn-3702538039\" class=\"lochn-content lochn-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3003812232025940\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3003812232025940\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The council leaders have told the populace <em>&#8220;if you don&#8217;t have bread then eat cake&#8221; <\/em>while they treat themselves to lavish canapes and wines in buffet lunches and parties &#8211; all at the expense of the local tax payer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an astounding confession Highland Council has admitted that it can&#8217;t cope with a bit of rain and homes and businesses will just have to flood. The kitty has been spent on consultations for a Soviet Era Berlin Wall to wreck the beautiful River Ness. The idea is to concrete the popular natural riverside to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/08\/20\/highland-council-admits-it-cant-cope-with-wet-weather\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Highland Council Admits It Can&#8217;t Cope With Wet Weather&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[149,182,202,314],"class_list":["post-7112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-flood","tag-highlands","tag-inverness","tag-rain"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7563,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7112\/revisions\/7563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}