{"id":11055,"date":"2017-05-10T13:12:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T17:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=11055"},"modified":"2017-05-10T13:12:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T17:12:58","slug":"tornadoes-risk-poverty-and-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/05\/tornadoes-risk-poverty-and-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornadoes, Risk, Poverty, And Housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Michigan State University study looks at the impacts of living on a mobile home on tornado safety. \u00a0Of all of the tornado-related deaths that have occurred so far this year, 63% were in mobile homes. \u00a0And the South is prime territory for mobile home residence, due to a combination of zoning and poverty as well as other factors, so that makes us especially vulnerable. \u00a0You can read more about the study in <em>Forbes.com<\/em> in a blog post by Dr. Marshall Shepherd of UGA\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/marshallshepherd\/2017\/05\/03\/a-new-study-explores-the-complexities-of-tornadoes-risk-poverty-and-housing\/#4f49bb0233c0\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11056\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11056\" style=\"width: 392px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/mobile-home-in-tornado.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11056\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/mobile-home-in-tornado-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/mobile-home-in-tornado-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/mobile-home-in-tornado-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/mobile-home-in-tornado-205x138.jpg 205w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/mobile-home-in-tornado.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SHAWNEE, OK &#8211; MAY 20: Volunteers help clean out Jean McAdams&#8217; mobile home after it was overturned by a tornado May 20, 2013 near Shawnee, Oklahoma. (Photo by Brett Deering\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Michigan State University study looks at the impacts of living on a mobile home on tornado safety. \u00a0Of all of the tornado-related deaths that have occurred so far this year, 63% were in mobile homes. \u00a0And the South is prime territory for mobile home residence, due to a combination of zoning and poverty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":11056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-severe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11057,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11055\/revisions\/11057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}