{"id":2002,"date":"2011-05-01T15:59:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T21:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2011-05-01T16:26:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T22:26:17","slug":"cairo-illinois-and-the-force-of-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=2002","title":{"rendered":"Cairo, Illinois and the force of Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2011\" style=\"width: 593px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Cairo-IL-4.30.11-Cor.3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2011\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2011 \" title=\"Cairo, IL 4.30.11 Cor.\" src=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Cairo-IL-4.30.11-Cor.3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"583\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Cairo-IL-4.30.11-Cor.3.jpg 648w, http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Cairo-IL-4.30.11-Cor.3-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2011\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of nature&#39;s energy centers is the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Sometimes nature explodes. Cairo, IL is where nature took over this week and residents there are being told to leave their homes due to massive flooding on both of those rivers. Date of Photo Noon 4\/29\/11. Photo \u00a9 2011 John Blair<\/p><\/div>\n<p>May 1, 2011-by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cairo, Illinois is still with us but huge &#8220;sand boils&#8221; are being reported in the levee that protects the community from the power of both the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Cairo, in the center of this photo shot April 29th shortly after noon, is at the southern tip of Illinois and is also joined by bridges to both Kentucky and Missouri.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Residents of Cairo are being told to leave their homes due the floods occurring in both rivers. Nature bats last!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; May 1, 2011-by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor Cairo, Illinois is still with us but huge &#8220;sand boils&#8221; are being reported in the levee that protects the community from the power of both the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Cairo, in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=2002\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2006,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions\/2006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}