{"id":703,"date":"2005-08-28T15:39:16","date_gmt":"2005-08-28T20:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/08\/28\/wiki-on-hurricane-katrina-and-new-orleans\/"},"modified":"2005-08-28T15:41:33","modified_gmt":"2005-08-28T20:41:33","slug":"wiki-on-hurricane-katrina-and-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/08\/28\/wiki-on-hurricane-katrina-and-new-orleans\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiki on Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia has an entry up for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hurricane_Katrina\">Hurricane Katrina<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tropical_cyclone#Categories_and_ranking\">category 5<\/a> hurricane that&#8217;s predicted to have a good chance of hitting the city of New Orleans, Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p>As the Wikipedia entry on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Orleans \">New Orleans<\/a> suggests, the world-famous town is especially vulnerable to storms as the entire city is located below sea level in a land area that acts like a large bowl, trapping water inside the city.<\/p>\n<p>The city is protected by large rings of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Levee\">levees<\/a> that keep the surrounding water at bay, while pumps remove any water brought in by storms.  However, predictions of storm surges 26 feet higher than normal tides have resulted in a mandatory evacuation order to be issued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia has an entry up for Hurricane Katrina, the category 5 hurricane that&#8217;s predicted to have a good chance of hitting the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. As the Wikipedia entry on New Orleans suggests, the world-famous town is especially vulnerable to storms as the entire city is located below sea level in a land &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/08\/28\/wiki-on-hurricane-katrina-and-new-orleans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wiki on Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}