{"id":6889,"date":"2022-10-07T14:58:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T19:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=6889"},"modified":"2022-10-07T14:58:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T19:58:20","slug":"hurricane-ian-a-devastating-storm-and-the-road-to-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=6889","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Ian: A Devastating Storm and the Road to Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Mikaela Gantz<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the first weekend of October, Hurricane Ian made landfall across multiple states along the southeastern United States. Ian was a large Category 4 hurricane originating from a tropical wave. It devastated Florida and South Carolina primarily, but the effects were felt in most states through different means.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Florida is a state that is especially susceptible to hurricanes due to its location between the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. It is the state that is hit by hurricanes the most, totaling 120 since 1851. Ian is now the deadliest storm since 1935 in Florida. The death toll is in the low hundreds and continues to rise as rescue crews work their way through the wreckage. Ian is also in an eight-way tie for the fifth-strongest storm to strike the United States. This was a horrific hurricane, it uprooted thousands from their homes, took hundreds of lives, and created significant economic and environmental damage. Businesses and homes were destroyed, and there is significant concern about fuel leakage. There is also damage to educational buildings in some of the affected areas in Florida, causing some schools and administrative offices to close.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At this time there is not a clear death toll as there is a significant amount of wreckage to sort through. Authorities are unclear on what the estimated number is because there were so many forced evacuations that there are some people who are missing. As the death toll rises, we at Roanoke College look to do what we can to help affected communities. Stay tuned as more opportunities to lend a hand to our neighbors arise throughout this semester.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Mikaela Gantz In the first weekend of October, Hurricane Ian made landfall across multiple states along the southeastern United States. Ian was a large Category 4 hurricane originating from a tropical wave. It devastated Florida and South Carolina primarily, but the effects were felt in most states through different means.\u00a0 Florida is a state&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-6889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-summer2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}