{"id":12926,"date":"2015-10-02T07:45:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T12:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12926"},"modified":"2015-10-02T07:45:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T12:45:50","slug":"prepping-for-a-hurricane-are-you-ready-for-joaquin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12926","title":{"rendered":"Prepping for a Hurricane: Are You Ready for Joaquin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.ca\/prepping-for-a-hurricane-10012015\">Prepping for a Hurricane: Are You Ready for Joaquin?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"fwI\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Prepping-for-a-Hurricane-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>The East Coast is bracing for a hurricane that may rival the ferocity of Superstorm Sandy. Hurricane Joaquin is expected to reach Category 4 proportions today, as it gains strength in the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>Current projections have it heading due north, and it\u2019s predicted to make landfall in the US\u00a0this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>If you happen to live in South Carolina, North Caroline, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, you\u2019re likely to get hit, particularly in the coastal regions.<\/p>\n<p>When you\u2019re thinking about how to prepare for an event like this, it\u2019s best to look back in history at what went wrong. \u00a0<strong>The good news is, today is Thursday. There\u2019s time to place some orders or purchase some items if you find that you are missing vital<\/strong>\u00a0preps<strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0Here are the things you need to do RIGHT NOW if you are in the path of the storm and prepping for a hurricane. Click the links for more in-depth information on each topic.<\/p>\n<h2>1.) Evacuate early<\/h2>\n<p>If you have a nice beachfront property, this is not the weekend to spend time there. Make plans now to evacuate inland if this is your full-time residence. For the love of all things cute and fluffy, don\u2019t plan on evacuating just as the storm hits. You want to leave before a mandatory evacuation is called for. \u00a0The East Coast, especially as you go north, is highly populated, and you do NOT want to be stuck in traffic when the wrath of the storm strikes. Leave early.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prepping for a Hurricane: Are You Ready for Joaquin? The East Coast is bracing for a hurricane that may rival the ferocity of Superstorm Sandy. Hurricane Joaquin is expected to reach Category 4 proportions today, as it gains strength in the Bahamas. Current projections have it heading due north, and it\u2019s predicted to make landfall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[6156,2924,9521,3366,411,9522,5837,1149,650,3861],"class_list":["post-12926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-daisy-luther","tag-emergency","tag-emergency-preparation","tag-evacuation","tag-hurricane","tag-hurricane-joaquin","tag-organic-prepper","tag-preparation","tag-prepping","tag-us-east-coast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12927,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12926\/revisions\/12927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}