{"id":236,"date":"2006-12-07T19:11:04","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T18:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=236"},"modified":"2006-12-07T19:11:04","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T18:11:04","slug":"a-tornado-down-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"A tornado down the road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like most people living in Britain, I tend to think of this as a country which doesn&#8217;t have tornadoes &#8211; but today I was reminded how wrong I am. In the Lodon borough in which I live (Brent), this morning there was <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/london\/6217514.stm\">a tornado<\/a> that damaged around 150 homes and injured six people.<br \/>\nIn fact, I wasn&#8217;t at home today. I was in Guildford, just south-west of London, attending a meeting of DEFRA officials to speak to them about the work of Postwatch. At about 11 am &#8211; the time of the tornado in Kensal Rise &#8211; we had a very heavy hail storm.<br \/>\nIt seems that Britain has around 50 tornadoes a year, which makes it the most tornado-strife country in Europe, but (fortunately) I&#8217;ve never experienced one &#8211; although today I could have come close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like most people living in Britain, I tend to think of this as a country which doesn&#8217;t have tornadoes &#8211; but today I was reminded how wrong I am. In the Lodon borough in which I live (Brent), this morning there was a tornado that damaged around 150 homes and injured six people. In fact, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}