{"id":5061,"date":"2014-07-07T10:30:49","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T15:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5061"},"modified":"2014-07-07T02:08:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T07:08:00","slug":"please-keep-the-wizard-of-oz-references-to-a-minimum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/07\/please-keep-the-wizard-of-oz-references-to-a-minimum\/","title":{"rendered":"Please keep the ‘Wizard of Oz’ references to a minimum"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nJuly 6, 2014:\u00a0<\/strong>A small tornado in Tama County was visible from the Morrison farm. The debris in the foreground is from a different tornado that hit Monday. Photo by Judy Morrison.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Traer area just had tornadoes roll through again<\/em>. This is the worst outbreak in my lifetime, and most likely the worst in Tama County history.<\/p>\n

The northern two townships of Tama County \u2014 the northernmost tier plus Perry and Clark specifically \u2014 have had<\/a> three<\/a><\/em>\u00a0days<\/a> in the past eight<\/em> where tornado warnings were issued. (There was also a severe thunderstorm warning<\/a> on June 27.)<\/p>\n

The most recent tornado or tornadoes (may or may not have been the same one that hit near Reinbeck<\/a>) was\/were captured on video at the Buckingham corner<\/a>, the southwest corner of Traer<\/a>, and way way WAY too close for rational thought<\/a>. It nearly took out the Zobel farmstead but only hit the barn, according to this tweet<\/a>\u00a0from Samantha Zobel. KWWL has a gallery that includes submitted pictures<\/a> taken from Traer.<\/p>\n

The expanded NWS report for the June 30 tornado<\/a>\u00a0is available now. The tornado was hard to see on radar because it was right about that time that the front congealed into a derecho that went east all the way to Lake Michigan<\/a>. The Chicago NWS reports<\/a> that two separate<\/em> derechos formed that day. The first is tracked back to central Iowa at 2 PM; the Traer tornado warning was issued at 2:03.<\/p>\n

From tornadoes to blizzards, it’s easy to see why Midwesterners have a healthy respect\/fear of nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

July 6, 2014:\u00a0A small tornado in Tama County was visible from the Morrison farm. The debris in the foreground is from a different tornado that hit Monday. Photo by Judy Morrison. The Traer area just had tornadoes roll through again. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tama-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5061"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5068,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061\/revisions\/5068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}