{"id":124896,"date":"2015-06-14T20:22:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T20:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=124896"},"modified":"2015-06-15T07:35:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T07:35:03","slug":"rains-submerging-parts-of-accra-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=124896","title":{"rendered":"Rains submerging parts of Accra again [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some residents living around Old Barrier on the Accra-Kasoa high way, parts of Santa Maria and Sowutuom, parts of the Kwame Nkruma Circle among others have made distress calls to <strong>Citi FM<\/strong> about floods in their area.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_124917\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-124917\" style=\"width: 621px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_8533.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-124917\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_8533.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8533\" width=\"621\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_8533.jpg 3456w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_8533-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_8533-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-124917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parts of Adabraka<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_124902\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-124902\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_8559.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-124902 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_8559.jpg\" alt=\"Odawna flooded\" width=\"620\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_8559.jpg 620w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_8559-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-124902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Odawna area<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Some motorists also say the water level at Malam junction is gradually rising.<\/p>\n<p>The rising water also took over the A-lang bridge near Sowutuom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/accra-flooded-again.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-124907 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/accra-flooded-again.jpg\" alt=\"accra flooded again\" width=\"587\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/accra-flooded-again.jpg 587w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/accra-flooded-again-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Citi News<\/strong> visits to areas around Circle, Kaneshie, First Light and parts of Adabraka also revealed similar situations.<\/p>\n<p>The rains have been pouring intermittently since Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_8532.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-124910 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_8532.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8532\" width=\"587\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_8532.jpg 587w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_8532-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fresh memories of the June 3 flood and fire disaster that killed over 150 people has put fear in many of the residents in these areas.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_124900\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-124900\" style=\"width: 622px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Laterbiorkoshie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-124900\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Laterbiorkoshie.jpg\" alt=\"Laterbiorkoshie\" width=\"622\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Laterbiorkoshie.jpg 960w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Laterbiorkoshie-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-124900\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of Laterbiokorshie earlier on Sunday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A concerned resident Joyce, who spoke to <strong>citifmonline.com<\/strong> said &#8220;Ataala (on the Malam-Kasoa highway) is so flooded. Its not easy. Please announce to people on your radio that they should be careful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Nana Boakye-Yiadom\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Franklin Badu<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some residents living around Old Barrier on the Accra-Kasoa high way, parts of Santa Maria and Sowutuom, parts of the Kwame Nkruma Circle among others have made distress calls to Citi FM about floods in their area. Some motorists also say the water level at Malam junction is gradually rising. The rising water also took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":124904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,17],"class_list":["post-124896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/124904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}