{"id":72,"date":"2013-03-06T11:18:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T11:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=72"},"modified":"2013-03-06T11:23:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T11:23:12","slug":"a-bridge-too-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"A bridge too far?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"A bridge too far?\" data-info-url=\"\" data-backend-url=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gft\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_6539.jpg\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=72\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"color\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p>On the 23 December 2012 Hatton woke up to find flooding.\u00a0 The Water of Cruden had overflowed its banks and flooded the area round about.\u00a0\u00a0 Water was rushing down the burn which flows past the Hatton Mill.\u00a0 I took some quick video of the scene when I was out with the dog early that morning, including standing on the bridge on Hatton Farm Road, watching the water rushing below.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Little did I think that the structure of the bridge had been significantly damaged, including the water, gas and electricity mains which crossed it.\u00a0 (Nor did the driver of the white car which you can see on the video casually driving past the Hatton Mill and over the bridge.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v9NiLsB9WUE?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That morning we had our water cut off and a power cut too.\u00a0 But worse was to come when the bridge was declared unsafe and closed.\u00a0 In a few days a temporary foot bridge was erected to allow the people from\u00a0 the north of the village to walk across and get to the main road, not to mention the shop, the school, the village hall, the doctors, the pub etc.\u00a0\u00a0 The only other way round was a 3 mile detour.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_90\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_6539.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90\" alt=\"The temporary foodbrige can be seen beyond the collapsed road.\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_6539.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_6539.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_6539-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_6539-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-90\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The temporary foodbrige can be seen beyond the collapsed road.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That was December &#8211; and it is only now, at the beginning of March that work is starting to place a temporary bridge to allow vehicles to cross.\u00a0 I read in the local paper this week that it will be six weeks more until the temporary bridge is open.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_89\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89\" style=\"width: 334px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_6536-e1362567025478.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89\" alt=\"The water undermined the road which subsequenly collapsed\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_6536-e1362567025478.jpg\" width=\"334\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The water undermined the road which subsequenly collapsed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>News on the streets is that the Hatton shop has seen a marked down turn in trade as a result of the bridge collapse\u00a0 and now a visit to the Hatton Waste Recycling Centre (aka<em> the skips<\/em>) to dispose of rubbish seems not worth the bother for those living on the south side of the village.<\/p>\n<p>Hatton residents are waiting desperately for the bridge to open and the village be reunited.\u00a0\u00a0 It has taken 4 months for a temporary bridge.\u00a0 How long for the permanent repair?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_88\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_6533.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88\" alt=\"Lily the dog admires the work starting to replace the bridge\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_6533.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_6533.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_6533-300x142.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_6533-624x295.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lily the dog admires the work starting to replace the bridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 23 December 2012 Hatton woke up to find flooding.\u00a0 The Water of Cruden had overflowed its banks and flooded the area round about.\u00a0\u00a0 Water was rushing down the burn which flows past the Hatton Mill.\u00a0 I took some quick video of the scene when I was out with the dog early that morning,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crudencountry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}