{"id":376,"date":"2010-11-06T18:40:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T22:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/?p=376"},"modified":"2010-11-06T18:46:24","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T22:46:24","slug":"hurricane-tomas-floods-refugee-camps-in-western-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/2010\/11\/hurricane-tomas-floods-refugee-camps-in-western-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Tomas Floods Refugee Camps in Western Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Category 1 hurricane Tomas hit the low southwestern edge of Haiti. \u00a0Heavy rains flooded refugee camps where earthquake victims still remain (in some places, refugees were left wading through 2-3 feet of water), and powerful 85-mph winds damaged buildings in the area. \u00a0Seven deaths were reported, though the Haitian government had issued warnings this week predicting greater disaster. \u00a0Compounded upon the homelessness and rubble left by January&#8217;s earthquake, as well as the country&#8217;s recent cholera outbreak, Hurricane Tomas still stands as a palpable reminder of Haiti&#8217;s acute need for aid and attention.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about Hurricane Tomas from the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20101106\/ap_on_bi_ge\/tropical_weather\">Associated Press<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-haiti-storm-20101106,0,5016484.story?page=1&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;track=rss&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20latimes%2Fnews%2Fnationworld%2Fworld%20%28L.A.%20Times%20-%20World%20News%29&amp;utm_source=feedburner\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Category 1 hurricane Tomas hit the low southwestern edge of Haiti. \u00a0Heavy rains flooded refugee camps where earthquake victims still remain (in some places, refugees were left wading through 2-3 feet of water), and powerful 85-mph winds damaged buildings in the area. \u00a0Seven deaths were reported, though the Haitian government had issued warnings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}