{"id":72423,"date":"2017-09-08T07:02:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T14:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/tech-companies-rise-to-help-florida-weather-irma"},"modified":"2017-09-14T17:01:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T00:01:17","slug":"tech-companies-rise-to-help-florida-weather-irma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/tech-companies-rise-to-help-florida-weather-irma","title":{"rendered":"Tech companies rise to help Florida weather Irma"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You know those jokes about how people first go online and on social media in times of emergencies before they actually do something about said emergency? Well it\u2019s time to turn that new habit on its head and actually make it useful. Florida governor Rick Scott urged residents to take advantage of apps like Gas Buddy, Google Maps, and Expedia to get the latest information on gas availability and road closures in preparing for hurricane Irma\u2019s landfall. Of course, only before and after the storm, not during and especially not inside it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe devastation in Houston left in Harvey\u2019s wake has sent Florida scrambling to prepare for an even more frightening Irma. This has caused no small amount of panic buying of supplies and gas. The latter has been especially problematic and one that cannot be easily solved. The only temporary answer is to make sure you can actually find an open gas station before you actually get there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGas Buddy is stepping up to task to go beyond the app\u2019s original purpose. Times like these, people are less concerned about finding the cheapest prices than they are finding gas in the first place. Like in Harvey\u2019s case, Gas Buddy has activated its Fuel Tracker to show stations that have no power, no gas, or both. This information is sourced from users who already had the misfortune of finding that out the hard way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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You know those jokes about how people first go online and on social media in times of emergencies before they actually do something about said emergency? Well it\u2019s time to turn that new habit on its head and actually make it useful. Florida governor Rick Scott urged residents to take advantage of apps like Gas [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72447,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72423\/revisions\/72447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}