{"id":248882,"date":"2025-11-07T07:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/248882\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T07:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:24:09","slug":"hull-mum-humbled-by-hurricane-melissa-ordeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/248882\/","title":{"rendered":"Hull mum &#8216;humbled&#8217; by Hurricane Melissa ordeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Miss Wiles flew home when a flight was available, but has been encouraging people to help via the appeals being run by established aid organisations such as the Red Cross.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;People are hungry, people are thirsty, people haven&#8217;t got roofs over their heads.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said it did not feel fair that she was home safe while others were suffering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If I would have been of any help to anybody, I would have stayed.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Miss Wiles booked the holiday a year before travelling. She was aware it was hurricane season, but was shocked when Melissa became a Category 5 storm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We survived it and came off really lightly but if someone had said before I went, I would have been silly to say I&#8217;m still going,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miss Wiles flew home when a flight was available, but has been encouraging people to help via the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-248882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}