{"id":4698,"date":"2014-02-11T17:18:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T17:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=4698"},"modified":"2014-02-11T17:18:28","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T17:18:28","slug":"governor-issues-needed-storm-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4698","title":{"rendered":"Governor issues needed storm warning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Give credit where it&#8217;s due to Gov. Nathan Deal, R-Ga.<\/p>\n<p>The man can take a hint. After letting the state&#8217;s guard down in the face of an earlier snow and ice storm &#8212; and getting pounded by critics for the chaos that ensued &#8212; the governor has sounded the alarm to be alert to the <em>next<\/em> historic storm that&#8217;s about to pound the Peach State.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/02\/11\/us\/winter-weather\/index.html?hpt=hp_t1<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s taking no chances this time, nor should he.<\/p>\n<p>Deal is heeding the warnings issued by the National Weather Service, which he inexplicably ignored the first time just a couple of weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It certainly looks like it could be of historic proportions, especially in the last 10 to 20 years,&#8221; said National Weather Service forecaster Jason Deese.<\/p>\n<p>To get ready, Deal has mobilized National Guard units and has issued stern warnings to local first responders to be ready for anything.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what governors get paid to do, among other things.<\/p>\n<p>Recall also that Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed took plenty of hits over his city&#8217;s shamefully inadequate response to the earlier storm. I&#8217;m betting Reed is going to follow the governor&#8217;s lead on this storm.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Give credit where it&#8217;s due to Gov. Nathan Deal, R-Ga. The man can take a hint. After letting the state&#8217;s guard down in the face of an earlier snow and ice storm &#8212; and getting pounded by critics for the chaos that ensued &#8212; the governor has sounded the alarm to be alert to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4698\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Governor issues needed storm warning<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[496,2634,3185],"class_list":["post-4698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlanta","tag-kasim-reed","tag-nathan-deal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}