{"id":1068,"date":"2005-09-21T08:34:31","date_gmt":"2005-09-21T13:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2005-09-21T08:34:53","modified_gmt":"2005-09-21T13:34:53","slug":"hurricane-rita-and-my-hometown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1068","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Rita and my Hometown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thefacts.com\/story.lasso?ewcd=32243eda391b7c31\">Run away!<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ANGLETON \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Texas\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 first mandatory hurricane evacuation goes into effect at 6 p.m. today as officials urge residents to get out of the path of Hurricane Rita.<\/p>\n<p>Brazoria County Judge John Willy called for the evacuation Tuesday afternoon after a series of conference calls with state emergency management officials and meetings with local officials. By 5 p.m. Tuesday, the county had plans to evacuate people without their own transportation, schools planned to close for the rest of the week and the emergency operations center opened.<\/p>\n<p>As of 5 p.m., the National Hurricane Center projected Rita to make landfall late Friday night or early Saturday morning in Matagorda County as at least a Category 3. That would put Brazoria County on the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153dirty\u00e2\u20ac\u009d side of the storm, as the counterclockwise rotation sucks moisture up from the Gulf of Mexico, dropping it on Brazoria County. Willy is holding out hope the county\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s preparations will be in vain and the storm will dodge the county.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If it does miss us, we can all smile,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Willy said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re in good shape.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>A mandatory evacuation for health-care facilities, including nursing homes, hospices and hospitals, goes into effect at 6 a.m. today.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153None of us have been through anything like this,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Rick Perry, the county\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s emergency management coordinator. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got a good plan in place.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping for the best for dear ol&#8217; Angleton and the surrounding communities.<\/p>\n<p>A map with suggested evacuation routes can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/images.chron.com\/content\/news\/photos\/05\/09\/21\/a-evacua.jpg\">here<\/a>, courtesy the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/\">Houston Chronicle<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Run away! ANGLETON \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Texas\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 first mandatory hurricane evacuation goes into effect at 6 p.m. today as officials urge residents to get out of the path of Hurricane Rita. Brazoria County Judge John Willy called for the evacuation Tuesday afternoon after a series of conference calls with state emergency management officials and meetings with local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}