{"id":1007,"date":"2013-04-26T00:03:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T05:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeanschara.com\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2025-04-20T13:29:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T18:29:38","slug":"weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weather is a good thing to keep an eye on.\u00a0 On May 15, 1968, an F5 tornado struck my hometown.\u00a0 You can see the wonderful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/login\/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F100064573546164%2F%3Fref%3Dts%26fref%3Dts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook page devoted to the event here.<\/a>\u00a0 Or check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/arx\/?n=may151968\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NOAA page <\/a>chronicling the May15, 1968 Iowa tornado outbreak, one of which was the Charles City tornado.<\/p>\n<p>I respect tornado warnings.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll never forget the eerie green of the sky or the stillness right before it hit.\u00a0 We were in the basement, and we saw stuff through the basement window.\u00a0 We were fortunate to only lose a garage window and a tree my parents were trying to figure out how to get rid of anyway.\u00a0 Later that night, my dad drove us my grandparent&#8217;s home in Wisconsin.\u00a0 We stayed at least a week before power and other utilities were restored to town.\u00a0 He left my mom and us kids there (three kids) and returned to town to help with the cleanup.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weather is a good thing to keep an eye on.\u00a0 On May 15, 1968, an F5 tornado struck my hometown.\u00a0 You can see the wonderful Facebook page devoted to the event here.\u00a0 Or check out the NOAA page chronicling the May15, 1968 Iowa tornado outbreak, one of which was the <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/weather\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-z-challenge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16375,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions\/16375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}