{"id":3870,"date":"2018-03-06T09:01:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T14:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=3870"},"modified":"2018-03-06T09:01:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T14:01:37","slug":"tues-mar-6-2018-nice-day-sun-came-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2018\/03\/06\/tues-mar-6-2018-nice-day-sun-came-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Tues. Mar. 6, 2018 &#8211;  nice day, sun came out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s 66F with 46%RH which is a nice change. Yesterday was very humid with overcast and storm clouds in the distance. Today is sunny, partly cloudy, cool, and dry. This is the first time that I&#8217;ve noticed the NOAA national forecast for the area to be wrong. Yesterday it had Houston in the middle of a t-storm zone. I suppose it&#8217;s still possible we&#8217;ll get storms later today. I hope not.<\/p>\n<p>This is a <i>bit<\/i> worrying, and typically it is a tiny mention, way down the page&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Lassa fever death toll hits 110: Fatalities in Nigeria rocket by 22% in a week amid &#8216;unusually severe&#8217; outbreak of the killer disease<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Global health chiefs declared this is Nigeria&#8217;s worst ever outbreak of Lassa fever<\/em><br \/>\n<em> There has been 1,121 suspected cases of the disease since January, figures show<\/em><br \/>\n<em> This year&#8217;s outbreak carries a significantly higher death rate than the usual 1%<\/em><\/p>\n<p>snip<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Elsie Ilori, head of the NCDC\u2019s Lassa Fever Emergency Operations Centre, described the situation as &#8216;overwhelming&#8217; last week.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>In an interview with <a class=\"class\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-02-22\/lassa-fever-outbreak-kills-73-in-nigeria-as-new-cases-surge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bloomberg<\/a>, she explained that the current outbreak is &#8216;more than what we have seen before&#8217;.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p>Read more: http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-5468093\/Lassa-fever-death-toll-hits-110.html<\/p>\n<p>From a tiny, casual mention back when Indonesia was suffering the black plague outbreak to &#8221; the worst outbreak of the deadly bug to have ever rocked Nigeria&#8221; in only a month or two.<\/p>\n<p>Good thing for us we&#8217;re not allowing unlimited immigration and travel from sh1thole countries&#8230;..\u00a0 oh, wait&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s 66F with 46%RH which is a nice change. Yesterday was very humid with overcast and storm clouds in the distance. Today is sunny, partly cloudy, cool, and dry. This is the first time that I&#8217;ve noticed the NOAA national forecast for the area to be wrong. Yesterday it had Houston in the middle of a t-storm zone. I suppose it&#8217;s still possible we&#8217;ll get storms later today. I hope not.<\/p>\n<p>This is a <i>bit<\/i> worrying,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2018\/03\/06\/tues-mar-6-2018-nice-day-sun-came-out\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Tues. Mar. 6, 2018 &#8211;  nice day, sun came out! &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":["post-3870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}