{"id":198674,"date":"2016-03-14T10:30:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T10:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=198674"},"modified":"2016-03-14T10:30:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T10:30:15","slug":"school-kids-stranded-as-rains-ravage-parts-of-accra-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=198674","title":{"rendered":"School kids stranded as rains ravage parts of Accra [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"social-sharing-top\">\n<div class=\"facebook-share\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"cg_intext_rt_search_0\" class=\"cg-intext-span cg-intext-span-reset cgspnlink \" data-type=\"yahoo\" data-type-id=\"10\">Heavy and prolonged raining\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0this morning appears to have brought parts of Accra to a standstill as people have struggled to get to their places of work and school.<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-198690\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160314_091928-1024x604.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20160314_091928\" width=\"601\" height=\"355\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The rainfall, which started at this dawn has\u00a0<span id=\"cg_intext_rt_search_19\" class=\"cg-intext-span cg-intext-span-reset cgspnlink \" data-type=\"yahoo\" data-type-id=\"10\"><\/span>caused flooding in parts of the city making <span id=\"cg_intext_rt_search_1\" class=\"cg-intext-span cg-intext-span-reset cgspnlink \" data-type=\"yahoo\" data-type-id=\"10\">vehicular\u00a0and pedestrian\u00a0movement<\/span> difficult.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-198692\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160314_091936.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20160314_091936\" width=\"601\" height=\"417\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of concern were the number of school kids seen stranded or walking to school in the downpour.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-198689\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160314_092003.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20160314_092003\" width=\"599\" height=\"341\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some Ghanaians on social media however found some humor in the dire situation brought on by the heavy rainfall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Behold Accra! Lake Volta is upon us. ?? 14.3.16 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HNMnpOYDX0\">pic.twitter.com\/HNMnpOYDX0<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 Nana B!_\u25b2CK (@nanakwesii) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nanakwesii\/status\/709286722002161664\">March 14, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-198687\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/20160314021235-1024x614.jpg\" alt=\"20160314021235\" width=\"602\" height=\"361\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-198688\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/20160314021412-1024x614.jpg\" alt=\"20160314021412\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Feeder roads in\u00a0Manhean borkorborkor near Ablekuma can be seen to heavily eroded by the runoff water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-198693\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160314_092350.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20160314_092350\" width=\"601\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-198694\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/20160314021412-1-1024x614.jpg\" alt=\"20160314021412 (1)\" width=\"598\" height=\"359\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-198734 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/flooding-in-parts-of-accra-5.jpg\" alt=\"flooding in parts of accra (5)\" width=\"711\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-198732 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/flooding-in-parts-of-accra-3.jpg\" alt=\"flooding in parts of accra (3)\" width=\"711\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-198733 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/flooding-in-parts-of-accra-4.jpg\" alt=\"flooding in parts of accra (4)\" width=\"711\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-198731 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/flooding-in-parts-of-accra-2.jpg\" alt=\"flooding in parts of accra (2)\" width=\"711\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-198730 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/flooding-in-parts-of-accra-1.jpg\" alt=\"flooding in parts of accra (1)\" width=\"711\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy and prolonged raining\u00a0\u00a0this morning appears to have brought parts of Accra to a standstill as people have struggled to get to their places of work and school. The rainfall, which started at this dawn has\u00a0caused flooding in parts of the city making vehicular\u00a0and pedestrian\u00a0movement difficult. Of concern were the number of school kids seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198674","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}