{"id":12849,"date":"2024-03-09T15:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12849"},"modified":"2024-03-09T15:00:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T15:00:48","slug":"big-storm-chaotic-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12849","title":{"rendered":"Big storm, chaotic Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My phone started pinging at about 10 this morning &#8211; weather alerts from Swiss Meteo warning of a wind storm. Sure enough, the ski lifts began to close, and by lunchtime Kleine Scheidegg had completely shut down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_4409-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"696\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_4409-1024x696.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_4409-1024x696.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_4409-300x204.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_4409-768x522.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_4409-1536x1043.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_4409-2048x1391.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_4409-442x300.jpeg 442w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To make matters worse, the gondola over at Grindelwald seems to have a technical problem, and it too has been closed since coffee time this morning. M\u00e4nnlichen managed to keep a couple of lifts open until mid-afternoon, but the storm is a big one and I think the authorities wanted everyone off the mountain. Not a good day for the many weekenders who arrived yesterday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My phone started pinging at about 10 this morning &#8211; weather alerts from Swiss Meteo warning of a wind storm. Sure enough, the ski lifts began to close, and by lunchtime Kleine Scheidegg had completely shut down. To make matters &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12849\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travelsandtribulations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}