{"id":6794,"date":"2016-10-05T15:18:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T19:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/?p=6794"},"modified":"2016-10-09T20:58:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T00:58:27","slug":"octobers-chaotic-kickoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/octobers-chaotic-kickoff\/","title":{"rendered":"October&#8217;s chaotic kickoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By NYAH TENNELL<\/p>\n<p>This week has been an exciting, yet chaotic week for Miami Hurricane students and staff.<\/p>\n<p>With the game against rival, FSU, this coming\u00a0Saturday, Hurricane Matthew&#8217;s touchdown\u00a0beginning Wednesday and in the midst of midterms, October is getting off to an interesting, and\u00a0jam-packed start.<\/p>\n<p>Hurricane Matthew, which has already\u00a0devastated many areas of the Caribbean, has been declared as a powerful category four, with maximum sustained winds of 130 m.p.h., said the National Hurricane Center.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency\u00a0on Monday and, according to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/weather\/2016\/10\/04\/hurricane-matthew-shifts-closer-florida-late-monday-forecast\/91515650\/\">USA today<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0he has warned residents to prepare for potential power outages and possible evacuations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are preparing for the worst, hoping for the best and not taking any chances,&#8221; Scott said.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2016\/10\/06\/millions-urged-to-flee-deadly-strengthening-hurricane-matthew.html\">Fox News<\/a>,\u00a0South Carolina also declared a state of emergency on Thursday,\u00a0which allows\u00a0federal aid to be dispersed in addition to state and local emergency response teams.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, The Pentagon reported that Florida, Georgia and South Carolina state governors mobilized 4,500 National Guardsmen to assist with southern communities&#8217; efforts to weather the storm.<\/p>\n<p>I just hope that Hurricane Matthew\u00a0brings our Hurricane football team some hurricane-force winds that wipe out Florida State at this Saturday&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By NYAH TENNELL This week has been an exciting, yet chaotic week for Miami Hurricane students and staff. With the game against rival, FSU, this coming\u00a0Saturday, Hurricane Matthew&#8217;s touchdown\u00a0beginning Wednesday and in the midst of midterms, October is getting off &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/octobers-chaotic-kickoff\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[524],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-6794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nyah-tennell","tag-sports-journalism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6794"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6849,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6794\/revisions\/6849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}