{"id":16991,"date":"2019-04-09T11:34:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T15:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=16991"},"modified":"2019-04-09T11:34:09","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T15:34:09","slug":"damage-estimates-for-midwestern-floods-top-12-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2019\/04\/damage-estimates-for-midwestern-floods-top-12-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Damage estimates for Midwestern floods top $12 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Growing Georgia<\/em> posted a story today about estimates of damage due to the Midwestern storms earlier this spring. The estimates from Accuweather, which include a variety of different impacts from both the blizzard and extensive flooding, estimate that damages may be as much as $12.5 billion. And with another strong storm expected to hit that area of the US again in the next few days, damages are likely to climb even farther. You can read more <a href=\"https:\/\/georgia.growingamerica.com\/news\/2019\/04\/flood-damage-estimate-soars-to-12-billion-2019-04-09\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16911\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16911\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/03\/missouri-floods-2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16911\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/03\/missouri-floods-2019-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/03\/missouri-floods-2019-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/03\/missouri-floods-2019-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/03\/missouri-floods-2019-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/03\/missouri-floods-2019-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/03\/missouri-floods-2019.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Kayla Wolf, Journal Star<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing Georgia posted a story today about estimates of damage due to the Midwestern storms earlier this spring. The estimates from Accuweather, which include a variety of different impacts from both the blizzard and extensive flooding, estimate that damages may be as much as $12.5 billion. And with another strong storm expected to hit that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":16911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops","category-livestock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16991","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\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16992,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16991\/revisions\/16992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}