{"id":245789,"date":"2004-09-02T12:39:28","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T16:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/09\/hurricane-frances-worst-to-hit-bahamas-in-years"},"modified":"2004-09-02T12:39:28","modified_gmt":"2004-09-02T16:39:28","slug":"hurricane-frances-worst-to-hit-bahamas-in-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/09\/hurricane-frances-worst-to-hit-bahamas-in-years","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Frances Worst To Hit Bahamas In Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamas is facing one of the most &#8220;intense hurricanes in its recorded history&#8221; Prime Minister Perry Christie warned the country yesterday.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe category four Hurricane Frances has already struck the southern Bahamas with ferocious 140mph winds and is expected to sweep throgh the central Bahamas today.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nMeterologists are calling Hurricane Frances the worst hurricane to hit the Bahamas in years and both public and private sector officials are bracing for the inevitable economic fall-out after a storm of such magnitude.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nCoastal storm surge flooding of 10-15 feet above sea level and dangerous battering waves can be expected in the Bahamas near the eye of Frances.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nPrime Minister Christie said that Frances is a &#8220;major and potentially very dangerous hurricane.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P><B><br \/>\nSource: Rupert Missick, The Tribune<\/B><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Christie said that Frances is a &#39;major and potentially very dangerous hurricane.&#39;<\/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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245789","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=245789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}