{"id":3119,"date":"2024-12-14T10:44:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T18:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=3119"},"modified":"2024-12-14T10:44:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T18:44:20","slug":"life-tornado-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/12\/14\/life-tornado-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Life: TORNADO WARNING!?!?!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024.12.14-Tornado-warning-980x1024.jpg\" alt=\"iPhone screenshot from 5:52 AM on Saturday, December 14th with the text of a National Weather Service TORNADO WARNING: &quot;Emergecy Alert: National Weather Service: TORNADO WARNING in this area until 6:15 AM PST.  Take shelter now in a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building.  If you are outdoors, in a mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shter and protect yourself from flying debris.  Check media.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-3120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024.12.14-Tornado-warning-980x1024.jpg 980w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024.12.14-Tornado-warning-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024.12.14-Tornado-warning-768x803.jpg 768w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024.12.14-Tornado-warning.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">What Fresh Hell Is THIS?  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My friends were texting. It is a rainy December Saturday after 5 AM, with lots of storm sounds, and they were commenting on the gusty winds. One of them shared a screen grab of a warning that a very intense weather front was coming in, filled with lightning and movement&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then the phone SHRIEKED.  Because a rain-wrapped pillar of swirling air was coming toward land in Daly City (the city just south of San Francisco).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spoiler: the tornado danger passed, it was okay, I got live texts from the friend who had shared the warning as he sheltered in a basement, the local emergency alert service eventually also decided that, being late to the show, they should at least tell us it was over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had plans today, on the basis that a little rain isn&#8217;t a big deal, and I could still run errands. I am&#8230; rethinking all of those plans.  I can surely&#8230; appreciate the INDOORS today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friends were texting. It is a rainy December Saturday after 5 AM, with lots of storm sounds, and they were commenting on the gusty winds. One of them shared a screen grab of a warning that a very intense weather front was coming in, filled with lightning and movement&#8230; And then the phone SHRIEKED. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/12\/14\/life-tornado-warning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Life: TORNADO WARNING!?!?!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[135],"tags":[129],"class_list":["post-3119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-weather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3119"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3124,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions\/3124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}