{"id":188005,"date":"2025-01-06T02:15:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T00:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-watch-flooding-as-heavy-downpour-is-recorded-in-chipinge\/"},"modified":"2025-01-06T02:15:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T00:15:40","slug":"zimbabwe-watch-flooding-as-heavy-downpour-is-recorded-in-chipinge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-watch-flooding-as-heavy-downpour-is-recorded-in-chipinge\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Watch &#8211; Flooding As Heavy Downpour Is Recorded in Chipinge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">THE New Year 2025 was marked with a heavy downpour of rains in the town of Chipinge, Manicaland province, triggering flooding in shops and houses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">This Thursday, the eastern border town recorded above normal rainfall, which resulted in flooding of properties thereby exposing the poor drainage system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">In one viral video posted by an anonymous shopper at the country&#8217;s leading retail chain store, TM Supermarket, excitable shoppers are immersed in water up to ankle level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">&#8220;We are literally swimming&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501030102.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE New Year 2025 was marked with a heavy downpour of rains in the town of Chipinge, Manicaland province, triggering flooding in shops and houses. This Thursday, the eastern border town recorded above normal rainfall, which resulted in flooding of properties thereby exposing the poor drainage system. In one viral video posted by an anonymous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,24904,13196,3910,8130,257,10499,254,10745,4686,421],"class_list":["post-188005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chipinge","tag-downpour","tag-flooding","tag-heavy","tag-news","tag-recorded","tag-south-africa-today","tag-watch","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}