{"id":20469,"date":"2016-11-15T20:55:40","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T20:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20469"},"modified":"2016-11-15T20:55:40","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T20:55:40","slug":"severn-trent-national-grid-et-al-take-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20469","title":{"rendered":"Severn Trent, National Grid, et al Take Note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 8 November 2016, a <a title=\"Huge sinkhole opens up in Japanese city: 'I heard a loud boom'\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/nov\/08\/huge-sinkhole-japanese-city-fukuoka-railway-station\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">massive sinkhole 30m across and 15m deep opened in the middle of Fukuoka, Japan<\/a>, just after 5am. This is what it looked like.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Fukuoka Sinkhole\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/264;border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Fukuoka Sinkhole\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sinkhole_open.jpg\" width=\"524\" align=\"left\" height=\"264\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/p>\n<p>By the morning of 10 November \u2013 also in 2016, just in case Severn Trent or National Grid staff are reading this \u2013 <a title=\"Japanese road reopens one week after vast sinkhole appeared\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/nov\/15\/japan-fixes-vast-fukuoka-city-sinkhole-repaired-two-days\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this is what they had done<\/a>.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Fukuoka Sinkhole Repaired\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/348;border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Fukuoka Sinkhole Repaired\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sinkhole_fixed.jpg\" width=\"524\" align=\"left\" height=\"348\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/p>\n<p>To be fair, the area didn\u2019t actually reopen until November 15 because of safety checks. Even so, they fixed it in 2 days, and it re-opened exactly one week after the sinkhole first appeared.<\/p>\n<p>You have to consider the magnitude of this situation in order to realise what a bunch of lazy and incompetent prats certain British companies appear to be when they take weeks or months to complete even the smallest of jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 8 November 2016, a massive sinkhole 30m across and 15m deep opened in the middle of Fukuoka, Japan, just after 5am. This is what it looked like. By the morning of 10 November \u2013 also in 2016, just in case Severn Trent or National Grid staff are reading this \u2013 this is what they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[87,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}