{"id":57710,"date":"2026-07-30T18:45:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T18:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/gwaelod-y-garth-residents-evacuated-after-flood-strikes-village\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T18:45:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T18:45:28","slug":"gwaelod-y-garth-residents-evacuated-after-flood-strikes-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/gwaelod-y-garth-residents-evacuated-after-flood-strikes-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Gwaelod-y-Garth residents evacuated after flood strikes village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Residents said they heard a loud blast from the direction of Taff&#8217;s Well at about 12:30 BST, and then &#8220;huge amounts of water&#8221; started rushing down the hillside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One family who live in the affected area said they were turned back at a police cordon and do not know how badly affected their home may be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Steven Mordecai, another resident from the area, said he saw a &#8220;wall of water&#8221; when he went to the back of his garden to see what was going on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I grabbed hold of my gate and I was floating. It was so forceful it was unreal,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c1j1wyy7e39o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents said they heard a loud blast from the direction of Taff&#8217;s Well at about 12:30 BST, and then &#8220;huge amounts of water&#8221; started rushing down the hillside. One family who live in the affected area said they were turned back at a police cordon and do not know how badly affected their home may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[2181,131,16162,423,840,3064],"class_list":["post-57710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk","tag-evacuated","tag-flood","tag-gwaelodygarth","tag-residents","tag-strikes","tag-village"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57712,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57710\/revisions\/57712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}