{"id":35425,"date":"2012-11-01T16:30:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T16:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/9washington_post_in_hard-hit_new_jersey_towns_a_daunting_recovery_effort_fr\/"},"modified":"2012-11-01T16:30:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T16:30:53","slug":"9washington_post_in_hard-hit_new_jersey_towns_a_daunting_recovery_effort_fr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35425","title":{"rendered":"(Washington Post) In hard-hit New Jersey towns, a daunting recovery effort from Hurricane Sandy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two days after the superstorm Sandy struck the East Coast, rescue officials confronted flooded cities and battered beach towns that remained dangerous and chaotic, particularly in pockets of hard-hit New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Large portions of this old factory city were still flooded, and pumps were working round-the-clock to clear a toxic and potentially deadly mix of water, oil and sewage estimated at more than 500 million gallons. National Guard troops in 2.5-ton Humvees patrolled the flooded streets, seeking to evacuate the most vulnerable of the city\u2019s 20,000 stranded residents, nearly half of Hoboken\u2019s population, who were told to stay inside and signal for help with pillowcases&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/in-hard-hit-new-jersey-towns-a-daunting-recovery-effort\/2012\/10\/31\/2f9b14a0-2397-11e2-8448-81b1ce7d6978_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two days after the superstorm Sandy struck the East Coast, rescue officials confronted flooded cities and battered beach towns that remained dangerous and chaotic, particularly in pockets of hard-hit New Jersey. Large portions of this old factory city were still<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35425\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-natural-disasters-earthquakes-tornadoes-hurricanes-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}