{"id":7463,"date":"2016-06-22T16:48:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T20:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7463"},"modified":"2016-06-22T16:48:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T20:48:58","slug":"remembering-the-great-flood-of-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/06\/remembering-the-great-flood-of-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the great flood of 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>MountainXpress<\/em> has an interesting story this week about the tremendous flood that affected western North Carolina, and Asheville in particular, in mid-July 1916. \u00a0According to their story, &#8220;the tail end of a hurricane, coming close on the heels of another one, had dumped 22 inches of rain on Western North Carolina in 24 hours, inundating the already sodden valleys. Mountainsides tumbled, and rivers overflowed their banks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about this storm at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mountainx.com\/news\/remembering-the-great-flood-of-1916\/\">https:\/\/mountainx.com\/news\/remembering-the-great-flood-of-1916\/<\/a>. \u00a0The article describes a\u00a0documentary, <em>Come Hell or High Water<\/em>, exploring the catastrophe through descendants\u2019 memories, historical photos and contemporary accounts.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7464\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7464\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/Flood_North_Carolina-1916.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7464\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/Flood_North_Carolina-1916-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"Source: NOAA via Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/Flood_North_Carolina-1916-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/Flood_North_Carolina-1916-210x138.jpg 210w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/Flood_North_Carolina-1916.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7464\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: NOAA via Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MountainXpress has an interesting story this week about the tremendous flood that affected western North Carolina, and Asheville in particular, in mid-July 1916. \u00a0According to their story, &#8220;the tail end of a hurricane, coming close on the heels of another one, had dumped 22 inches of rain on Western North Carolina in 24 hours, inundating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":7464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463","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=7463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7465,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463\/revisions\/7465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}