{"id":22,"date":"2005-08-28T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-28T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2005-11-21T03:24:38","modified_gmt":"2005-11-21T03:24:38","slug":"hurricane-katrina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/hurricane-katrina\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Katrina"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilburstreet.com\/weblog\/uploaded_images\/katrina-776459.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wilburstreet.com\/weblog\/uploaded_images\/katrina-765704.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>As of this writing (3pm EST 8\/28\/05), Hurricane Katrina was churning through the Gulf of Mexico toward the below-sea-level city of New Orleans, LA with expected landfall of the eye at 7AM on 8\/29\/05.  Current sustained winds are 180mph, with gusts about 200mph.<\/p>\n<p>This storm will be devastating.  It is a category 5 storm, on the Saffir-Simpson scale which represents the most powerful storm.<\/p>\n<p>Destruction of life and property will be wide-spread, even with the current mandatory evacuation of New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>FEMA is currently prepared to act, as I&#8217;m sure the National Guard is on stand-by as well.<\/p>\n<p>After that, who will help?<\/p>\n<p>For the Tsunami relief effort, the U.S. is #4 on the top list of donators, donating over $350 million dollars to the relief.<\/p>\n<p>For all that the U.S. does for other countries, who will help us?  Time will tell, but it&#8217;s my guess that no other nation will donate help or money to our time of need.  <\/p>\n<p>Someone please prove me wrong.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of this writing (3pm EST 8\/28\/05), Hurricane Katrina was churning through the Gulf of Mexico toward the below-sea-level city of New Orleans, LA with expected landfall of the eye at 7AM on 8\/29\/05. Current sustained winds are 180mph, with gusts about 200mph. This storm will be devastating. It is a category 5 storm, on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/hurricane-katrina\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hurricane Katrina&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}