{"id":381,"date":"2011-05-26T17:09:50","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T00:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/?p=381"},"modified":"2011-05-26T17:09:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T00:09:50","slug":"tornadic-just-made-that-adjective-up-devastation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"Tornadic (just made that adjective up) Devastation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Commuting&#8217; to Tennessee like I am right now, the nights that I have been spending here seem to be getting more stressful with all of the tornadoes in this area of the country. Every day, regardless if a tornado has hit in the area, the weather is bad enough to where someone in the office comes in saying either a tree fell on their house, or a neighbor or relative. It&#8217;s crazy. This week while here, I drove down with my boss to meet with area managers in Alabama &#8211; where the area was hit with some of the most devastating tornadoes in US history last month. It was like something out of a movie &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The 2 videos below show just how surreal this can be &#8230; I still can&#8217;t get my head around the power of this weather.<P>The first video is the &#8216;during&#8217;, with the second showing the &#8216;day after&#8217;. These videos were taken in Joplin, MO &#8211; where a class 4 (Alabama&#8217;s where class 5s).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cQnvxJZucds\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W-P4P68YyNM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Commuting&#8217; to Tennessee like I am right now, the nights that I have been spending here seem to be getting more stressful with all of the tornadoes in this area of the country. Every day, regardless if a tornado has hit in the area, the weather is bad enough to where someone in the office [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2toiQ-69","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":981,"url":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/?p=981","url_meta":{"origin":381,"position":0},"title":"Lightning Tonight","author":"admin","date":"0808.1010.1414","format":false,"excerpt":"Had some lightning in the area - got my GoPro and set to time-lapse, every 1 second. 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