{"id":8866,"date":"2018-09-14T05:13:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T09:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8866"},"modified":"2018-09-14T12:30:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T16:30:38","slug":"storm-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8866","title":{"rendered":"Storm update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Florence is slogging ashore right now.  The coffee-colored zone in the illustration below is under hurricane-force winds, and the yellow zone is experiencing tropical storm conditions.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/storm_graphics\/AT06\/refresh\/AL062018_3day_cone_with_line_and_wind+png\/033326_3day_cone_with_line_and_wind.png\" width=600><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We are located about 40-miles south of the Virginia border, so we are near the northern edge of the tropical storm zone.  We are getting rain and wind, but it&#8217;s not too bad and, so far, only a couple of dead tree limbs have come down.  Since the storm will soon start to lose energy rapidly, with a corresponding contraction of the diameter of the storm, and decline in wind speed, its effects upon us are unlikely to be too grim.  I guess we may lose a tree or two &#8212; there is no predicting, really &#8212; but so far it appears that the worst is going to miss us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Florence is slogging ashore right now. The coffee-colored zone in the illustration below is under hurricane-force winds, and the yellow zone is experiencing tropical storm conditions. We are located about 40-miles south of the Virginia border, so we are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8866\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8866"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8866"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8871,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8866\/revisions\/8871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}