{"id":380637,"date":"2018-10-12T10:13:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T09:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-devastating-hurricane-michael-kills-at-least-7-in-us\/"},"modified":"2018-10-12T10:13:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T09:13:48","slug":"presstv-devastating-hurricane-michael-kills-at-least-7-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-devastating-hurricane-michael-kills-at-least-7-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Devastating Hurricane Michael kills at least 7 in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Hurricane Michael, the third most powerful hurricane in US history, slammed into the state of Florida Thursday, killing at least seven people and bringing &#8220;life threatening&#8221; floods to several states on the Atlantic coast.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Michael struck Florida\u2019s northwest coast near the small town of Mexico Beach on Wednesday afternoon with top sustained winds of 155 miles per hour (250 kph), pushing a wall of seawater inland and causing widespread flooding.<\/p>\n<p>The storm tore entire neighborhoods apart, reducing homes and businesses to piles of wood and siding, damaging roads and leaving scenes of devastation that resembled the aftermath of a carpet-bombing operation.<\/p>\n<p>The storm left &#8220;unimaginable destruction&#8221; and \u201cso many lives have been changed forever,\u201d Florida Governor Rick Scott said in a statement posted on social media.<\/p>\n<p>US Army troops used heavy equipment to push a path through debris in Mexico Beach to allow rescuers through to search for trapped&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/12\/576760\/US-Hurricane-Michael-7-seven-dead-killed\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Michael, the third most powerful hurricane in US history, slammed into the state of Florida Thursday, killing at least seven people and bringing &#8220;life threatening&#8221; floods to several states on the Atlantic coast. Michael struck Florida\u2019s northwest coast near the small town of Mexico Beach on Wednesday afternoon with top sustained winds of 155 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}