{"id":1166,"date":"2011-04-18T12:49:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T16:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2011-04-19T14:32:52","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T18:32:52","slug":"tornadoes-rip-by-our-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2011\/tornadoes-rip-by-our-neighborhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornadoes rip by our neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yikes!  We&#8217;re fine, but we are thinking of others very nearby &#8211; a &#8220;large&#8221; (weatherman&#8217;s emphasis) tornado came by at 70 mph within a couple blocks of our house.  Estimates are that a couple dozen people were killed, 130 homes were destroyed, and a thousand more homes were damaged in North Carolina.  Trees are down everywhere and it&#8217;s going to be a while before everything&#8217;s cleaned up.  I wonder if I should get a chainsaw at the store&#8230; if they have any&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110418-124754.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110418-124754.jpg?w=656\" alt=\"20110418-124754.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110418-124808.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110418-124808.jpg?w=656\" alt=\"20110418-124808.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110418-124853.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110418-124853.jpg?w=656\" alt=\"20110418-124853.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yikes! We&#8217;re fine, but we are thinking of others very nearby &#8211; a &#8220;large&#8221; (weatherman&#8217;s emphasis) tornado came by at 70 mph within a couple blocks of our house. Estimates are that a couple dozen people were killed, 130 homes were destroyed, and a thousand more homes were damaged in North Carolina. Trees are down &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2011\/tornadoes-rip-by-our-neighborhood\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tornadoes rip by our neighborhood<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[35,34],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-global-issues","tag-holly-springs","tag-tornado"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-iO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":188,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2006\/building-together\/","url_meta":{"origin":1166,"position":0},"title":"Building Together","author":"m","date":"September 30, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"We got a kit to build a small brick house using a sandy gluey mortar, and spent a couple summer weekends on the back porch and kitchen table laying bricks. 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