{"id":12204,"date":"2017-08-26T09:37:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T13:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=12204"},"modified":"2017-08-26T09:37:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T13:37:44","slug":"a-look-at-devastating-hurricanes-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/08\/a-look-at-devastating-hurricanes-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"A look at devastating hurricanes from the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Washington Post<\/em> has an interesting historical look at past devastating hurricanes that have hit the United States today. In early years, people often did not have enough warning to flee before the hurricane hit. More recently, people in the path of the storm did not believe the forecasters and underestimated the effects of the storm. Will Harvey be added to this list in the future? We will start to find out today. \u00a0You can read the article<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4328\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4328\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/galveston-hurricane.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4328\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/galveston-hurricane-300x274.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/galveston-hurricane-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/galveston-hurricane-151x138.jpg 151w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/galveston-hurricane.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4328\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Commons Wikiimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/retropolis\/wp\/2017\/08\/25\/as-texas-braces-for-a-huge-hurricane-a-look-at-the-most-devastating-storms-in-u-s-history\/?undefined=&amp;utm_term=.f4ee38ca0540&amp;wpisrc=nl_headlines&amp;wpmm=1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post has an interesting historical look at past devastating hurricanes that have hit the United States today. In early years, people often did not have enough warning to flee before the hurricane hit. More recently, people in the path of the storm did not believe the forecasters and underestimated the effects of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":4328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-history","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12204","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=12204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12206,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12204\/revisions\/12206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}