{"id":2439,"date":"2011-08-28T19:51:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T23:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2011-08-30T06:40:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T10:40:28","slug":"irene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2439","title":{"rendered":"Irene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">B<\/span>y now<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=2440\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2440\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/goes_ecan_1070_100-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Irene\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2440\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/goes_ecan_1070_100-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/goes_ecan_1070_100-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/goes_ecan_1070_100.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> you have read about hurricane Irene: For a change it made landfall in the US and it&#8217;s expected to hit mainland Canada (via Quebec) later this night. Canada&#8217;s Weatheroffice has it&#8217;s expected path plotted on <a href=\"http:\/\/weatheroffice.gc.ca\/hurricane\/track_e.html\">this page<\/a>, where you can also see that they&#8217;ve started tracking hurricane Jose. Obviously, it&#8217;s tracking a more eastern path.\n<\/p>\n<p>Irene is full-up mentioned in the news, particularly by US outlets, where the lower parts of several states are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/US\/08\/28\/tropical.weather\/index.html?iref=BN1&#038;hpt=hp_t1\">under flooding watch<\/a>: the  main gist is that <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/US\/08\/28\/irene.how.bad\/index.html?hpt=hp_t1\">it could have been worse<\/a><\/em>: the current death count stands at 19. The expectation is that the situation here in Canada will be less severe: In NB, NB Power currently reports at or around 10,000.\n<\/p>\n<p>Around here I&#8217;ve only noticed the casual strong\/torrential rains. Additionally, the humidity has gone up, which is generally another sign of a tropical storm passing by. I don&#8217;t expect the power to go off, but hey, hurricanes are unpredictable: stay inside and most important of all, have a good sleep.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"reference\">\n<p><em>Update:<\/em> Pretty images from the Space station (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/articles\/204606\/20110826\/nasa-captures-hurricane-irene-track-from-space-photos-video.htm\">link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em>Aug 30th, 2011:<\/em> Aftermath in Canada (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/story\/2011\/08\/29\/irene-post-tropical-canada-829.html\">CBC<\/a>)\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now you have read about hurricane Irene: For a change it made landfall in the US and it&#8217;s expected to hit mainland Canada (via Quebec) later this night. Canada&#8217;s Weatheroffice has it&#8217;s expected path plotted on this page, where &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2439\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2441,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions\/2441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}