{"id":106105,"date":"2017-09-11T13:33:07","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T08:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=106105"},"modified":"2017-09-11T13:33:07","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T08:03:07","slug":"florida-battered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/florida-battered\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida battered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hurricane Irma brought ripping winds, tornadoes and storm-surge flooding to much of Florida&#8217;s lower half on Sunday, as its slow-moving core battered the state&#8217;s west coast from Key West to Tampa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The massive storm &#8211; which had menaced Florida for days, and triggered evacuation orders covering 5.6 million people &#8211; made two official landfalls on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-106106 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tm670-2016-1472865283-447065982.jpg\" alt=\"Florida battered \" width=\"608\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Irma hit them as a Category 4 hurricane, with sustained winds near 130 miles per hour.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Little was heard from the islands for hours afterwards because residents here had no way to connect with the outside world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-106107 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/151839-hurricane-irene-path-the-aftermath-photos.jpg\" alt=\"Florida battered \" width=\"627\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Though hit with lengthy periods of hurricane conditions that led to significant flooding in well-known tourist areas, Key West was largely spared the onslaught that many feared. But the island was left with no power, water or cell phone service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Irma brought ripping winds, tornadoes and storm-surge flooding to much of Florida&#8217;s lower half on Sunday, as its slow-moving core battered the state&#8217;s west coast from Key West to Tampa. The massive storm &#8211; which had menaced Florida for days, and triggered evacuation orders covering 5.6 million people &#8211; made two official landfalls on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,2],"tags":[53700,53699,53703,569,53695,53659,53702,53698,275,53697,53696,53701,1206],"class_list":["post-106105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nri","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-130-miles-per-hour","tag-5-6-million-people","tag-cell-phone-service","tag-florida","tag-hurricane","tag-irma","tag-key-west","tag-key-west-to-tampa","tag-power","tag-storm-surge-flooding","tag-tornadoes","tag-tourist-areas","tag-water"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img791063.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106105","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=106105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}