{"id":566827,"date":"2010-05-17T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/florida-oil-map-2010-5"},"modified":"2010-05-17T14:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T18:22:00","slug":"map-of-the-day-watch-out-florida-here-comes-the-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/566827","title":{"rendered":"MAP OF THE DAY: Watch Out Florida, Here Comes The Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bf186737f8b9a4d19c50400-243-181\/florida-oil-spill-24-hours.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Florida Oil Spill 24 Hours\" width=\"243\" height=\"181\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The oil leak growing off the coast of Louisiana could be set to make landfall soon, and may be destined to hit another coast line soon thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>Worries are growing that after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/bp-inserts-siphon-into-leaking-pipe-still-no-sign-it-will-do-much-good-2010-5\">failed attempts<\/a> to stem the flow of oil from the leak, it may grow and flow along the current towards the coast of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>See what could happen in the next 72 hours here, and follow updates at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dep.state.fl.us\/deepwaterhorizon\/\">Florida EPA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Here&#8217;s how to understand the EPA&#8217;s maps.<\/h2>\n<div class=\"image-container slide-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bf186547f8b9a176b9e0000-400-300\/heres-how-to-understand-the-epas-maps.jpg\" alt=\"Here's how to understand the EPA's maps.\" border=\"0\" class=\"slide-image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dep.state.fl.us\/deepwaterhorizon\/\">Florida Department of Environmental Protection<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2>After 24 hours&#8230;<\/h2>\n<div class=\"image-container slide-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bf186737f8b9a4d19c50400-400-300\/after-24-hours.jpg\" alt=\"After 24 hours...\" border=\"0\" class=\"slide-image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dep.state.fl.us\/deepwaterhorizon\/\">Florida Department of Environmental Protection<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2>After 48 hours&#8230;<\/h2>\n<div class=\"image-container slide-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bf1867d7f8b9ad219de0000-400-300\/after-48-hours.jpg\" alt=\"After 48 hours...\" border=\"0\" class=\"slide-image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dep.state.fl.us\/deepwaterhorizon\/\">Florida Department of Environmental Protection<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2>Moving closer to Florida, after 72 hours&#8230;<\/h2>\n<div class=\"image-container slide-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bf186887f8b9aae190c0300-400-300\/moving-closer-to-florida-after-72-hours.jpg\" alt=\"Moving closer to Florida, after 72 hours...\" border=\"0\" class=\"slide-image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dep.state.fl.us\/deepwaterhorizon\/\">Florida Department of Environmental Protection<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2>Worried about the oil leak? Check out just how big it is compared to cities around the world.<\/h2>\n<div class=\"image-container slide-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4be816517f8b9a3d4f6d0200-400-300\/worried-about-the-oil-leak-check-out-just-how-big-it-is-compared-to-cities-around-the-world.jpg\" alt=\"Worried about the oil leak? Check out just how big it is compared to cities around the world.\" border=\"0\" class=\"slide-image\" \/><\/div>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/map-of-the-day-size-of-oil-spill-compared-to-new-york-2010-5#san-francisco-1\">Here&#8217;s what the oil spill would look like on top of your city &gt;<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/florida-oil-map-2010-5#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/8Piq30KbDAk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oil leak growing off the coast of Louisiana could be set to make landfall soon, and may be destined to hit another coast line soon thereafter. Worries are growing that after failed attempts to stem the flow of oil from the leak, it may grow and flow along the current towards the coast of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}