{"id":137916,"date":"2016-11-10T14:42:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T12:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=137916"},"modified":"2016-11-13T19:56:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T17:56:05","slug":"the-lighter-side-of-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/11\/10\/the-lighter-side-of-flooding\/","title":{"rendered":"The lighter side of flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The metro and emergency services across the board are on high alert following Wednesday\u2019s storm, which resulted in flash floods across Ekurhuleni.<\/p>\n<p>The floods claimed two lives on the N3 near Linksfield, and injured many more.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>But it was not all bad&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Marlands residents\u00a0Lucas Coetzer (seen on the left in the below video) and\u00a0Pie Badenhorst took the opportunity to practice their fishing.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The two can be seen laughing in the rain with their fishing rods as water swirls around them.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/doPttgS40og' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/137862\/photo-round-up-storm-wreaks-havoc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Photo round-up: Storm wreaks havoc<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/137861\/warning-severe-thunderstorms-and-flooding-predicted-for-today\/\" target=\"_blank\">Warning \u2013 severe thunderstorms and flooding predicted for today<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/137899\/protect-yourself-and-your-assets-in-extreme-weather\/\" target=\"_blank\">Protect yourself and your assets in extreme weather<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='001daccace8a4c60f8437aa5ff8f9cf1'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marlands residents practice their fishing during the flash floods on Wednesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":137917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730],"class_list":["post-137916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}