{"id":17697,"date":"2012-10-29T16:06:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T20:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17697"},"modified":"2012-10-29T14:27:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T18:27:22","slug":"millions-brace-as-frankenstorm-predicted-to-devastate-east-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17697","title":{"rendered":"Millions Brace As \u2018Frankenstorm\u2019 Predicted To Devastate East Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SHIP BOTTOM, NJ\u00a0 \u2014 Forget distinctions like tropical storm or hurricane. Don\u2019t get fixated on a particular track. Wherever it hits, the behemoth storm plodding up the East Coast will afflict a third of the country with sheets of rain, high winds and heavy snow, say officials who warned millions in coastal areas to get out of the way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re looking at impact of greater than 50 to 60 million people,\u201d said <strong>Louis Uccellini,<\/strong> head of environmental prediction for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.<\/p>\n<p>As Hurricane Sandy trekked north from the Caribbean \u2013 where it left nearly five dozen dead \u2013 to meet two other powerful winter storms, experts said it didn\u2019t matter how strong the storm was when it hit land: The rare hybrid storm that follows will cause havoc over 800 miles from the East Coast to the Great Lakes.<\/p>\n<p>Governors from North Carolina, where steady rains were whipped by gusting winds Saturday night, to Connecticut declared states of emergency. Delaware ordered mandatory evacuations for coastal communities by 8 p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHIP BOTTOM, NJ\u00a0 \u2014 Forget distinctions like tropical storm or hurricane. Don\u2019t get fixated on a particular track. Wherever it hits, the behemoth storm plodding up the East Coast will afflict a third of the country with sheets of rain, high winds and heavy snow, say officials who warned millions in coastal areas to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}