{"id":10800,"date":"2011-08-22T08:46:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T12:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10800"},"modified":"2011-08-22T09:50:08","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T13:50:08","slug":"ontario-town-of-goderich-hit-by-tornado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/08\/22\/ontario-town-of-goderich-hit-by-tornado\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario town of Goderich hit by tornado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A89SX02_gMw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One man died and nearly 40 others were reported injured in the Sunday tornado which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.680news.com\/news\/local\/article\/266332--deadly-tornado-tears-through-goderich-state-of-emergency-in-effect\" target=\"_blank\">devastated the historic town centre<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Environment Canada confirmed the Southwestern Ontario town was struck by either an F-2 or F-3 level tornado around 4 p.m. Sunday. The rating makes this the most powerful storm to strike Ontario since 1996, bringing winds of up to 300 km\/h.<\/p>\n<p>The one fatality, a 61-year-old man, was confirmed by officials as Norman Laberge of Lucknow, Ont. He had been working at a nearby salt mine when the tornado struck. Reports indicate he was working on a crane that collapsed during the storm.<\/p>\n<p>Goderich&#8217;s historic square was hit directly by the storm and left completely ravaged. Several buildings had their roofs ripped off, numerous windows were shattered and a number of cars were tossed around. The downtown area, which has classic historic buildings, has been declared a &#8220;no-go&#8221; zone because of the severity of the damage.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One man died and nearly 40 others were reported injured in the Sunday tornado which devastated the historic town centre: Environment Canada confirmed the Southwestern Ontario town was struck by either an F-2 or F-3 level tornado around 4 p.m. Sunday. The rating makes this the most powerful storm to strike Ontario since 1996, bringing [&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_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,65],"tags":[87,206],"class_list":["post-10800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-environment","tag-ontario","tag-severeweather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2Oc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10801,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10800\/revisions\/10801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}