{"id":2063,"date":"2012-04-04T13:44:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T18:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/?p=2063"},"modified":"2012-04-04T13:44:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T18:44:01","slug":"holy-crazy-wind-batman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/holy-crazy-wind-batman\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Crazy Wind, Batman!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you live under a rock (or are maybe still hiding under one from yesterday), the DFW metroplex was rocked by crazy storms yesterday. I heard one DJ say something about it being the worst tornado outbreak in this area since&#8230;well, before I was born (and that was a long time ago). I can&#8217;t verify that information, but there were 18 reported sightings and officials are in the process of verifying just how many there really were.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, so far no deaths have been attributed to these storms, and only a handful of injuries, so it could have been far worse than it was. [Note: this is not intended to downplay the injuries that did occur (at least one of which I know was quite serious, but that person is expected to make a full recovery) but only to state that we&#8217;re grateful because it could have been much, much worse.]<\/p>\n<p>Because I&#8217;m no photographer (and I&#8217;m the type to be cowering in shelter, not out taking pictures), I&#8217;ll leave you with some links to pics\/footage of the storms and damage, and some links for information to volunteer or help, if you feel so inclined.<\/p>\n<p>Links to pictures of damages:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/mjs538\/incredible-pictures-of-the-tornadoes-near-dallas\">http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/mjs538\/incredible-pictures-of-the-tornadoes-near-dallas<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dfw.cbslocal.com\/photo-galleries\/2012\/04\/03\/severe-weather-photos-april-3-2012\/\">http:\/\/dfw.cbslocal.com\/photo-galleries\/2012\/04\/03\/severe-weather-photos-april-3-2012\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How\/where to help:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redcross.org\/portal\/site\/en\/menuitem.94aae335470e233f6cf911df43181aa0\/?vgnextoid=d9bf40d569b76310VgnVCM10000089f0870aRCRD\">http:\/\/www.redcross.org\/portal\/site\/en\/menuitem.94aae335470e233f6cf911df43181aa0\/?vgnextoid=d9bf40d569b76310VgnVCM10000089f0870aRCRD<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dfw.cbslocal.com\/2012\/04\/03\/cbs-red-cross-teaming-up-for-disaster-relief\/\">http:\/\/dfw.cbslocal.com\/2012\/04\/03\/cbs-red-cross-teaming-up-for-disaster-relief\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you live under a rock (or are maybe still hiding under one from yesterday), the DFW metroplex was rocked by crazy storms yesterday. I heard one DJ say something about it being the worst tornado outbreak in this area since&#8230;well, before I was born (and that was a long time ago). I can&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,18,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crazy-weather","category-general","category-ways-to-help"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2063"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2069,"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions\/2069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}