{"id":64824,"date":"2024-11-25T13:05:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T13:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/?p=64824"},"modified":"2024-11-25T13:43:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T13:43:33","slug":"devon-recovers-from-storm-bert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/devon-recovers-from-storm-bert\/","title":{"rendered":"Devon recovers from Storm Bert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Our highways teams worked round the clock to deal with hundreds of issues across the county\u2019s highway network caused by Storm Bert over the weekend.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Up to 30 teams, including highways emergency response crews, tree surgeons and other specialists, worked flat out to respond to issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several roads were impassable as numerous rivers burst their banks and drains were deluged by rain for 48 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday saw a steady stream of callouts for fallen trees, flooding and other wind damage such as utility infrastructure and road signs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of our teams, in gully wagons, patrolled the network clearing gully and drainage blockages while gritter drivers, who were on standby, were on hand to provide extra support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We brought in additional staff to the Network Operations Control Centre where we received approximately 600 calls which lead to more than emergency 250 call outs across the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the majority of the main road network is now open and moving freely, there are still a number of issues outstanding that could not be resolved over the course of Saturday and Sunday because of the high-water levels.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of these are in the South of the county such as at Manaton, Starcross, Avonwick, the Teigngrace Causeway, Liverton and the Dartington to Buckfastleigh Road, A384.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are working through these outstanding issues which are being monitored closely and we will reopen the remaining roads when it safe to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While a number of flood warnings and flood alerts remain in force, there are currently no severe flood warnings for Devon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At various points flooding was reported on the A377, A383, A379, A381, A3052, A3072, A382, A3124, A386, A361, A384, A388 and the A375.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With trees reported down on A358, A386, A390, A379, A385, A381, A3122, A376, A377, A3072, A382, A396, A361, A39 and the A3052<\/p>\n\n\n

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Councillor Stuart Hughes, our Cabinet Member for Highway Management, said: <\/p><\/div>\r\n \t\t

\u201cStorm Bert has left a trail of devastation this weekend, with a huge number of flooded roads, landslides and more trees down across the county.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to thank our dedicated teams and contractors who have been extremely busy working in hazardous conditions dealing with as many of these as possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are still working on clean-up operations today, but I\u2019m pleased to say that most of the main road network is moving, although there are still many smaller issues that need to be resolved.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t<\/blockquote>\r\n

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\r\n Councillor Stuart Hughes, Cabinet Member for Highway Management<\/a><\/figcaption>\r\n <\/figure>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n <\/div>\n\n\n

To report an emergency on the highway please call: 0345 155 1004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":859,"featured_media":64825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[986],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-roads-and-transport"],"acf":[],"featured_image":{"ID":64825,"title":"Tree","alt":"Fallen tree on windswept road","description":"","caption":"","url":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2024\/11\/Tree.png","width":1200,"height":675,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2024\/11\/Tree-400x270.png","thumbnail_width":400,"thumbnail_height":270,"medium":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2024\/11\/Tree-600x338.png","medium_width":600,"medium_height":338,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2024\/11\/Tree-768x432.png","medium_large_width":768,"medium_large_height":432,"large":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2024\/11\/Tree-800x450.png","large_width":800,"large_height":450,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2024\/11\/Tree.png","1536x1536_width":1200,"1536x1536_height":675,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2024\/11\/Tree.png","2048x2048_width":1200,"2048x2048_height":675,"thumbnail_featured":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2024\/11\/Tree-770x450.png","thumbnail_featured_width":770,"thumbnail_featured_height":450,"thumbnail_sidebar":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2024\/11\/Tree-200x135.png","thumbnail_sidebar_width":200,"thumbnail_sidebar_height":135,"banner-block":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2024\/11\/Tree-440x440.png","banner-block_width":440,"banner-block_height":440,"small-banner":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2024\/11\/Tree-640x360.png","small-banner_width":640,"small-banner_height":360,"medium-banner":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2024\/11\/Tree-1024x576.png","medium-banner_width":1024,"medium-banner_height":576,"small-thumb":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2024\/11\/Tree-640x480.png","small-thumb_width":640,"small-thumb_height":480,"medium-thumb":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2024\/11\/Tree-320x240.png","medium-thumb_width":320,"medium-thumb_height":240,"large-thumb":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2024\/11\/Tree-420x315.png","large-thumb_width":420,"large-thumb_height":315,"slideshow-preview":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2024\/11\/Tree-300x200.png","slideshow-preview_width":300,"slideshow-preview_height":200,"slideshow":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2024\/11\/Tree-800x533.png","slideshow_width":800,"slideshow_height":533}},"category_priority":false,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-11-25 13:00:18","action":"delete","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/859"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64829,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64824\/revisions\/64829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}