{"id":3042,"date":"2009-04-13T10:05:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T15:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3042"},"modified":"2009-04-13T11:04:57","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T16:04:57","slug":"tornado-by-guest-blogger-abbys-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/13\/tornado-by-guest-blogger-abbys-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado by guest blogger, Abby&#8217;s mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">On Friday, we had a tornado.&nbsp; You can see my photos of the damage <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/abbys_mom\/sets\/72157616677393498\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.&nbsp; The  good news is that no one was killed.&nbsp; The bad news is that because no  one was killed, our little county has to pay for all the repair &amp;  cleanup on its own.&nbsp; The number of crews &amp; trucks that have converged on  the Grandview community is truly amazing.&nbsp; Early Saturday morning, the  first (local) responders were estimating several weeks without power.&nbsp;  It was back on Saturday night.&nbsp; Trucks loaded with utility poles or huge  spools of electric cable came rolling down Grandview Rd., followed by  specialized vehicles which dug holes and then erected the utility  poles.&nbsp; Crews from North Carolina arrived and have worked non-stop,  first sawing through trees blocking the roads, then going back and  chipping all the fallen trees and throwing the mulch to the side.&nbsp; All  up and down the roads are trucks from electric companies with men up in  cherry pickers re-stringing the electric cable.&nbsp; On the hardest hit  road, the trucks were spaced every 100 yards or so apart for about two  miles.&nbsp; The Salvation Army which has a camp on Grandview Lake came out  on Saturday morning and delivered jugs of water to residents then cooked  up a beef stew and began giving it out along with pastries &amp; crackers to  the workers and neighbors who had no power.&nbsp; Because we are all on well  water here, when the electricity goes out, our water goes out.&nbsp; The few  neighbors on the periphery who had power were offering water\/baths to  others.&nbsp; Some are even housing others.&nbsp; Disasters seem to pull  communities together.&nbsp; We are very grateful that we sustained no damage  personally, but mostly for all the people who rallied to put our  community back together. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, we had a tornado.&nbsp; You can see my photos of the damage here.&nbsp; The good news is that no one was killed.&nbsp; The bad news is that because no one was killed, our little county has to pay for all the repair &amp; cleanup on its own.&nbsp; The number of crews &amp; trucks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-3042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-tornado"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}