{"id":954,"date":"2004-09-14T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-14T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=954"},"modified":"2004-09-14T14:18:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-14T21:18:00","slug":"vertical-evacuation-if-i-was-in-one-id-evacuate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=954","title":{"rendered":"Vertical Evacuation? If I Was In One, I&#8217;d Evacuate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/WEATHER\/09\/14\/hurricane.ivan\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>, the mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, has said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The city basically sits like a bowl and most of the city is under sea level &#8230; so if we get a storm like Ivan to hit us directly&#8221; there could be 12 to 18 feet of water in the city. If people can&#8217;t get out of New Orleans, the mayor said, they should do a &#8220;vertical evacuation.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By this, he means that residents that can&#8217;t get out of the city should &#8220;Basically, go to hotels and high-rise buildings in the city&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;ve been to New Orleans. I&#8217;ve been in the Sheraton New Orleans. Yeah, I&#8217;d really want to ride out a Cat 4 Hurricane on the 44<sup>th<\/sup> floor of a high-rise, likely with no power and no way to get out when the French Quarter floods.<\/p>\n<p>That would certainly cause me to evacuate. As <a href=\"http:\/\/ellipticcurve.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">ellipticcurve<\/a> said when I told her about this, &#8220;hurq&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to CNN, the mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, has said: &#8220;The city basically sits like a bowl and most of the city is under sea level &#8230; so if we get a storm like Ivan to hit us directly&#8221; there could be 12 to 18 feet of water in the city. If people <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=954\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,1],"tags":[123,191],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chum","category-lj-xfer","tag-disasters","tag-observations-2004"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}