{"id":106058,"date":"2017-09-10T18:41:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T13:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=106058"},"modified":"2017-09-10T18:42:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T13:12:30","slug":"hurricane-irma-hits-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/hurricane-irma-hits-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Irma hits Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hurricane Irma began its assault on Florida early Sunday with the storm\u2019s northern eyewall reaching the lower Florida Keys as a powerful Category 4 storm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-106060 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/622985-hurricane-irma.jpg\" alt=\" Hurricane Irma hits Florida \" width=\"553\" height=\"316\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Irma lashed the area with maximum sustained winds near 130 mph (215 kph) and the US National Hurricane Center said it was expected to remain a powerful storm as it moved through the Florida Keys and near the state\u2019s west coast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As of 7 am EDT Sunday, the hurricane was centred about 15 miles (25 kilometres) south-southeast of Key West, Florida, and was moving northwest at 8 mph (13 kph). The Key West International Airport measured sustained winds of 50 mph (80 kph) with a gust of up to 70 mph (113 kph), according to the hurricane center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-106059 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Hurricane-Irma-path-track-when-Irma-hit-Florida-US-latest-forecast-weather-models-1055799.jpg\" alt=\" Hurricane Irma hits Florida \" width=\"548\" height=\"341\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tens of thousands of people huddling in shelters watched for updates as the storm swung to the west, now potentially sparing Tampa as well Miami the catastrophic head-on blow forecasters had been warning about for days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Irma began its assault on Florida early Sunday with the storm\u2019s northern eyewall reaching the lower Florida Keys as a powerful Category 4 storm. Irma lashed the area with maximum sustained winds near 130 mph (215 kph) and the US National Hurricane Center said it was expected to remain a powerful storm as it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[17933,569,53658,53659,12503,10080,1233],"class_list":["post-106058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nri","category-top-stories","tag-airport","tag-florida","tag-hurricane-irma-hits-florida","tag-irma","tag-national","tag-sunday","tag-us"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/e3-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}