{"id":1760,"date":"2023-06-21T22:11:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T22:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2023-06-21T22:15:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T22:15:13","slug":"heat-wave-fuels-deadly-storms-and-power-outages-across-southern-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/heat-wave-fuels-deadly-storms-and-power-outages-across-southern-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave fuels deadly storms and power outages across southern U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/authors\/rfalconer\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An extreme, prolonged heat wave from\u00a0Texas to Louisiana\u00a0is helping fuel deadly southern storms that have resulted in the deaths of at least six people and left hundreds of thousands without power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>State of play:\u00a0<\/strong>A series of tornadoes hit Mississippi overnight,\u00a0killing\u00a0at least one person, wounding almost two dozen others and leaving over\u00a049,000\u00a0without power, officials said. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/science\/extreme-weather\">severe weather<\/a>\u00a0also caused outages for nearly 187,000 people in Oklahoma, almost 79,000 others in Texas and some 69,000 in Louisiana as of Monday evening, per utility tracker\u00a0poweroutage.us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>An estimated 26,000 people in Arkansas also experienced outages, where a flash flood emergency was issued in the state&#8217;s southwest:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An extreme, prolonged heat wave from&nbsp;Texas to Louisiana&nbsp;is helping fuel deadly southern storms that have<span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/heat-wave-fuels-deadly-storms-and-power-outages-across-southern-u-s\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heat wave fuels deadly storms and power outages across southern U.S.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1761,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions\/1761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}