{"id":6957,"date":"2024-03-07T13:51:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T13:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/07\/hurricanes-are-intensifying-more-rapidly-and-the-most-vulnerable-communities-are-hit-hardest\/"},"modified":"2024-03-07T13:51:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T13:51:29","slug":"hurricanes-are-intensifying-more-rapidly-and-the-most-vulnerable-communities-are-hit-hardest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/07\/hurricanes-are-intensifying-more-rapidly-and-the-most-vulnerable-communities-are-hit-hardest\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes are intensifying more rapidly \u2013 and the most vulnerable communities are hit hardest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricanes are more frequently escalating quickly, and the places they destroy may be those disadvantaged by racist housing policy<\/p>\n<p>Chelle Walton remembers how the water rushed into her home, the night Hurricane Ian made landfall. The 68-year-old found herself chin-deep in water, scrambling to grab essentials like her husband\u2019s medication. \u201cStrangely enough, things float in saltwater,\u201d Walton said.<\/p>\n<p>Walton and her husband Rob<strong> <\/strong>had decided to shelter in place, despite repeated evacuation notices.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/mar\/07\/hurricane-strength-global-warming-intensification\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricanes are more frequently escalating quickly, and the places they destroy may be those disadvantaged by racist housing policy Chelle Walton remembers how the water rushed into her home, the night Hurricane Ian made landfall. The 68-year-old found herself chin-deep in water, scrambling to grab essentials like her husband\u2019s medication. \u201cStrangely enough, things float in &#8230; <a title=\"Hurricanes are intensifying more rapidly \u2013 and the most vulnerable communities are hit hardest\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/07\/hurricanes-are-intensifying-more-rapidly-and-the-most-vulnerable-communities-are-hit-hardest\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Hurricanes are intensifying more rapidly \u2013 and the most vulnerable communities are hit hardest\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}