{"id":1378,"date":"2012-07-03T20:14:36","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T20:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1378"},"modified":"2012-07-04T19:12:35","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T19:12:35","slug":"tornadoes-dorechos-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1378","title":{"rendered":"tornadoes, dorechos, warnings?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The year 2011 saw the most natural disasters worldwide in recorded history.\u00a0\u00a0And we’re on a tract to maybe best that this year…\u00a0 While record setting wildfires rage out in the West in this country, the Midwest and East Coast just got hit by a\u00a0huge “derecho” storm, leaving a “massive trail of destruction,” according to the Washington Post<\/em>.\u00a0 A storm originating in northern Illinois swept east with sustained wind gusts of 70 to 90 mph, “…one of the most destructive complexes of thunderstorms in memory,” noted the Post<\/em>.\u00a0 Then there were the ‘huge’ (F-5)\u00a0tornadoes that hit population centers like Joplin, Birmingham, Tuscaloosa…\u00a0 In our camapaign travels last year, we stopped in the small town of Cullman, Alabama.\u00a0 The tornado that hit Tuscaloosa, skipped across the state and also touched down in Cullman.\u00a0 The whole main street there looked like a completely bombed out war zone.\u00a0 Just before entering Alabama, we had sat in on a Wednesday night church service in Crestview, Florida.\u00a0 The pastor said he saw these massive tornadoes as God’s way of trying to get our attention.\u00a0 And the same could be said for this recent derecho storm.\u00a0 We in America have just crossed the 50 million abortion mark; we’re playing around with embryonic stem cell research and cloning; gay marriage is gaining significant traction, the disparity between the First World and the grinding poverty of the Third World is huge…\u00a0 Why wouldn’t God, conversely, send some ‘huge’ phenomenon to wake us up?\u00a0 Note:<\/strong>\u00a0 On the other hand (or in combination), our tremendously poor environmental stewardship could be part of the cause as well.\u00a0 After the derecho, a number of scientists said variations of:\u00a0 “This is what global warming looks like.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The year 2011 saw the most natural disasters worldwide in recorded history.\u00a0\u00a0And we’re on a tract to maybe best that this year…\u00a0 While record setting wildfires rage out in the West in this country, the Midwest and East Coast just …<\/span> 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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1380,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions\/1380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}