{"id":2517,"date":"2011-08-10T07:39:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T13:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=2517"},"modified":"2011-09-09T08:06:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T14:06:20","slug":"top-stories-uk-wont-let-culture-of-fear-take-over-feds-low-rates-pledge-supports-global-stocks-visa-goodbye-to-mag-stripe-cards-hello-to-chip-cards-poll-suggests-change-in-power-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=2517","title":{"rendered":"Disasters in the US:  An Extreme and Exhausting Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Disasters in the US:\u00a0 An Extreme and Exhausting Year: <\/strong>So far, 2011 has brought its share of major tornadoes and tornado   outbreaks, droughts, floods, and even a rare hurricane in the   Northeast.\u00a0 With $35 billion dollars in natural disaster damage thus far   this year, it seems natural to wonder what the heck is going on?<\/p>\n<p>Nature is pummeling the US this year with extremes.\u00a0 Unprecendented triple-digit heat and devastating drought.\u00a0 Deadly tornadoes and tornado outbreaks leveling towns.\u00a0 Massive rivers overflowing.\u00a0 A billion-dollar blizzard.\u00a0 And now, unusual hurricane-caused flooding in Vermont.\u00a0 And as if that wasn&#8217;t enough, the ground shook in places that normally seem stable:\u00a0 Colorado and the entire East Coast.\u00a0 On Friday, a strong quake triggered tsunami warnings in Alaska.\u00a0 Arizona and New Mexico have broken records for wildfires.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that climate change and a strong La Nina have both played a major role in the weather extremes, with the year not over yet and hurricane season just beginning.\u00a0 And climate change may or may not be  playing a role in La Nina.\u00a0 The Colorado State University Tropical  Meteorology Project, which forecasts hurricane seasons each year, had  predicted 2011 would be a busy year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disasters in the US:\u00a0 An Extreme and Exhausting Year: So far, 2011 has brought its share of major tornadoes and tornado outbreaks, droughts, floods, and even a rare hurricane in the Northeast.\u00a0 With $35 billion dollars in natural disaster damage thus far this year, it seems natural to wonder what the heck is going on? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general_news","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2517"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2530,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions\/2530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}