{"id":41913,"date":"2018-09-12T11:31:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T11:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=41913"},"modified":"2018-09-12T11:31:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T11:31:11","slug":"us-capital-under-state-of-emergency-for-hurricane-florence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/us-capital-under-state-of-emergency-for-hurricane-florence\/","title":{"rendered":"US capital under state of emergency for Hurricane Florence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US capital declared a state of emergency Tuesday as Hurricane Florence bears down on the US East Coast, threatening torrential rain and flooding in the Washington region.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Muriel Bowser told a news conference the emergency was &#8220;effective immediately&#8221; and that the measure &#8220;ensures that we will have the resources we need to prepare for Florence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More than a million coastal residents have been ordered to leave their homes ahead of the storm&#8217;s projected arrival on Thursday, with emergencies already declared in the states of North and South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>The 15-day emergency signed by Bowser noted that Florence was &#8220;forecasted to produce high winds, rainfall and storm surge&#8221; with &#8220;serious widespread effects in the region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The last time the US capital declared a state of emergency was in January 2016 when a winter storm dubbed &#8220;Snowzilla&#8221; blanketed the capital and its region in knee-deep snow.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US capital declared a state of emergency Tuesday as Hurricane Florence bears down on the US East Coast, threatening torrential rain and flooding in the Washington region. Mayor Muriel Bowser told a news conference the emergency was &#8220;effective immediately&#8221; and that the measure &#8220;ensures that we will have the resources we need to prepare [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41915,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41913\/revisions\/41915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}