{"id":7996,"date":"2016-08-17T09:51:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T13:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7996"},"modified":"2016-08-17T09:51:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T13:51:55","slug":"tips-for-hurricane-preparedness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/08\/tips-for-hurricane-preparedness\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for hurricane preparedness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tropics are starting to heat up with the development of Tropical Depression 6, which is expected to become TS Fiona within a few days. \u00a0It won&#8217;t hit the Southeast in all probability, but the next storm might come a lot closer. \u00a0Here are two web sites with helpful information on preparing for a tropical storm or hurricane before it occurs. \u00a0Remember, the rainfall may cause as much damage as the wind, especially if the storm is slow-moving. \u00a0If you are near the coast, storm surge is also something to keep in mind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iweathernet.com\/weather-safety\/tips-hurricane-safety-preparedness\">https:\/\/www.iweathernet.com\/weather-safety\/tips-hurricane-safety-preparedness<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nws.noaa.gov\/om\/hurricane\/index.shtml\">https:\/\/www.nws.noaa.gov\/om\/hurricane\/index.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/named-hurricane-fran.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3294\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/named-hurricane-fran-300x240.gif\" alt=\"named-hurricane-fran\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/named-hurricane-fran-300x240.gif 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/named-hurricane-fran-1024x819.gif 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/named-hurricane-fran-173x138.gif 173w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tropics are starting to heat up with the development of Tropical Depression 6, which is expected to become TS Fiona within a few days. \u00a0It won&#8217;t hit the Southeast in all probability, but the next storm might come a lot closer. \u00a0Here are two web sites with helpful information on preparing for a tropical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":3294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,19,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-science","category-tropical-weather","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7996","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=7996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8007,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7996\/revisions\/8007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}