{"id":28245,"date":"2017-09-11T16:24:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T20:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=28245"},"modified":"2017-09-11T16:24:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T20:24:50","slug":"wrmi-hurricane-irma-has-done-extensive-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/wrmi-hurricane-irma-has-done-extensive-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"WRMI: Hurricane Irma has done “extensive damage”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Source: WRMI on Facebook<\/a>)<\/p>\n

1430 UTC Monday, September 11<\/p>\n

Hurricane Irma has done extensive damage at WRMI in Okeechobee, Florida.<\/p>\n

Two antenna towers are down and many poles holding transmission lines are also down.<\/p>\n

Power went out at around 2030 UTC Sunday, and it may not be restored for days.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, all transmitters are off the air. Our Internet service is also down, which means that our live stream is down as well. All of our staff are OK. We’ll try to provide more information later today here on Facebook<\/a>. Thanks for all of your messages of support.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: WRMI on Facebook) 1430 UTC Monday, September 11 Hurricane Irma has done extensive damage at WRMI in Okeechobee, Florida. Two antenna towers are down and many poles holding transmission lines are also down. Power went out at around 2030 UTC Sunday, and it may not be restored for days. Meanwhile, all transmitters are off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,960,3,43],"tags":[6486,284,349,61],"class_list":["post-28245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-hurricane-irma","tag-jeff-white","tag-radio-miami-international","tag-wrmi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-7lz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28224,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/hurricane-irma-update-from-wrmi-rhc\/","url_meta":{"origin":28245,"position":0},"title":"Hurricane Irma update from WRMI & RHC","author":"Thomas","date":"September 10, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: WRMI on Facebook) Dear WRMI Friends, Colleagues and Clients: I am writing this at 0400 UTC Sunday, September 10. 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