{"id":242178,"date":"2003-05-26T11:50:40","date_gmt":"2003-05-26T15:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/05\/prepare-for-an-active-hurricane-season"},"modified":"2003-05-26T11:50:40","modified_gmt":"2003-05-26T15:50:40","slug":"prepare-for-an-active-hurricane-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/05\/prepare-for-an-active-hurricane-season","title":{"rendered":"Prepare For An Active Hurricane Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local meteorologists are predicting a &#8220;highly active&#8221; 2003 hurricane season.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nAnd with the start of the season just over one week away, chief &#8220;met&#8221; officer Basil Dean is urging Bahamians to begin to focus on pre-hurricane precautions and remain vigilant throughout the remainder of the season, which ends November 30.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nMr. Dean said that although technology is in place to track the progress of storms, the warnings are &#8220;virtually useless&#8221; if residents do not adequately prepare themselves or their homes.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nMr. Dean said the damage that could result in category 2-5 storms could be &#8220;horrendous&#8221;.<br \/>\n<P><B>Source: Cara Brennen, The Tribune<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meteorologist Basil Dean says warnings are useless if residents do not prepare themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}