{"id":991276,"date":"2009-11-10T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/be-prepared-tropical-storm-ida-advisories-and-alerts\/"},"modified":"2018-11-08T15:50:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T15:50:46","slug":"be-prepared-tropical-storm-ida-advisories-and-alerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/be-prepared-tropical-storm-ida-advisories-and-alerts\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Prepared: Tropical Storm Ida Advisories and Alerts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Tracking Hurricane Ida\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2009\/11\/weather.png\" alt=\"Tracking Hurricane Ida\" width=\"420\" height=\"287\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Travel during hurricane season can be challenging \u2013 especially when a tropical storm like Ida is heading for the United States Gulf Coast.\u00a0\u00a0 Here are a few places to check out if your travel plans are taking you to, from and through Alabama, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/flights\/cheap-flights-to-florida-fl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Florida<\/strong><\/a>, and Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The <strong>United States Department of Commerce<\/strong> has a helpful site to assist with tracking so travelers can keep a watch on the storm\u2019s path and answer Frequently Asked Questions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Contact your airline or cruise line first during times of heightened weather concerns.\u00a0 \u00a0If your travel isn\u2019t imperative, I would think about switching your <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/flights\/\">flight<\/a><\/strong> to another time.\u00a0 <em>(Hurricane season ends at the end of this month and national travel alerts end December 4, 2009.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Websites for individual airlines like Delta, for example, will post travel alerts and explain how to get up-to-the-minute alerts via e-mail or mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The <strong>U.S. Department of State<\/strong> also has a very <strong>helpful travel alert website <\/strong>that should answer your general questions about hurricanes and where to go and what to do if you find yourself in this kind of a weather situation. Finally, the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/\">National Weather Service<\/a><\/strong> also provides a great resource for travelers during hurricane season \u2013 or any season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>Picture courtesy of Weather.com <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Travel during hurricane season can be challenging \u2013 especially when a tropical storm like Ida is heading for the United States Gulf Coast.\u00a0\u00a0 Here are a few places to check out if your travel plans are taking you to, from and through Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi. The United States Department of Commerce has a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97201028,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991276\/revisions\/97201028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}