{"id":19619,"date":"2014-05-27T15:40:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T20:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=19619"},"modified":"2014-05-27T15:40:33","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T20:40:33","slug":"500000-people-evacuate-massive-2-week-long-flood-40-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/27\/500000-people-evacuate-massive-2-week-long-flood-40-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"500,000 people evacuate massive 2-week long flood; 40+ dead."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excessive warmth attributable to global warming and a stalled weather system, also attributable to global warming, have caused a weather system in over southeast China to dump rain since May 12th.  A million people are in the impacted area, ahlf of them have had to move or have been rescued, and the 2-6 inches of daily rain continues.  25,000 homes have been destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>This area has recieved huge investments over the last few decades, since a huge 1998 storm killed thousands and caused 26 billion dollars in damage. They now fear that the present flooding will be as bad.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some video (with some out of date information on casualties and damages):<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BUUZVcFeGU4?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/robertscribbler.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/27\/massive-two-week-long-china-flood-sends-half-a-million-fleeing-destroys-more-than-25000-homes\/\">Massive, Two Week Long China Flood Sends Half a Million Fleeing, Destroys More Than 25,000 Homes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/half-a-million-evacuated-as-china-braces-for-more-flooding-9435698.html\">Half a million evacuated as China braces for more flooding<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excessive warmth attributable to global warming and a stalled weather system, also attributable to global warming, have caused a weather system in over southeast China to dump rain since May 12th. A million people are in the impacted area, ahlf of them have had to move or have been rescued, and the 2-6 inches of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/27\/500000-people-evacuate-massive-2-week-long-flood-40-dead\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">500,000 people evacuate massive 2-week long flood; 40+ dead.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[148,856,20,97,1713,1192,1894],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-56r","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}