{"id":12146,"date":"2015-12-27T05:16:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T05:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12146"},"modified":"2018-04-26T21:54:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T21:54:06","slug":"tornadoes-tornadoes-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12146","title":{"rendered":"Tornadoes, tornadoes everywhere &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/dallas-tornado-from-airport.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12148\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12148\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/dallas-tornado-from-airport-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"dallas-tornado-from-airport\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/dallas-tornado-from-airport-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/dallas-tornado-from-airport-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/dallas-tornado-from-airport.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Suffice to say this has been a most <em>interesting<\/em> Christmas weekend.<\/p>\n<p>We piled into\u00a0our pickup Christmas morning and headed to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Our granddaughter, Emma, awaited us.<\/p>\n<p>We discovered right away that it&#8217;s really quite a treat to drive any distance on the morning of this holy day. Why? We were among the very few who were hitting the road.<\/p>\n<p>We pulled our fifth wheel and arrived in Allen, Texas about 30 minutes ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n<p>We exchanged Christmas gifts with Emma and her parents. We laughed and hugged on our precious little pumpkin.<\/p>\n<p>We awoke this morning. We ran some errands; I purchased a new computer with my son&#8217;s help and returned to his home. My wife, daughter-in-law and granddaughter went on a shopping spree of their own.<\/p>\n<p>Then <em>all hell broke loose<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The rain came. The wind blew. Then the tornado sirens began screaming. The TV weather guys were all over the story of a storm that ravaged the entire greater Dallas area.<\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t experience any damage in the neighborhood where Emma lives with our son, daughter-in-law and her two brothers.<\/p>\n<p>But the twisters were close.<\/p>\n<p>Wylie? Hammered. De Soto? Pounded. Garland, Ellis County and Rockwall? More of the same.<\/p>\n<p>As I write this brief blog post, eight people have died in just the past three hours. Three died in a Garland gasoline service station that was pulverized by a tornado.<\/p>\n<p>The worst of the storms has swept on by. We&#8217;re still standing, breathing a major sigh.<\/p>\n<p>My wife and I have known for a very long time how blessed we are in so many ways. Our hearts are broken for those who have lost so much on this evening, the day after Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Still, tonight\u00a0we feel especially blessed &#8230; and thankful.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suffice to say this has been a most interesting Christmas weekend. We piled into\u00a0our pickup Christmas morning and headed to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Our granddaughter, Emma, awaited us. We discovered right away that it&#8217;s really quite a treat to drive any distance on the morning of this holy day. Why? We were among the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12146\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tornadoes, tornadoes everywhere &#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[5817,5816],"class_list":["post-12146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-stormy-weather","tag-tornadoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29404,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12146\/revisions\/29404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}