{"id":1619,"date":"2010-10-24T21:00:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T02:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2010-10-24T21:00:44","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T02:00:44","slug":"distant-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/24\/distant-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Distant Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo from Gerardo Lopez and available on http:\/\/cbs11tv.com\/local\/daytime.storms.hurst.2.1977596.html<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While storms swept through the Dallas\/Fort Worth Metroplex yesterday, today they created a new and dangerous line far east of the area. On our walk tonight, Jodi and I looked west and saw nothing but clear blue skies. East of us, however, we saw a wall of yellow-gray storm clouds. Their anvil-shaped up-drafts towered 3-4km over the ground, and every second there were bursts of bright cloud-to-cloud lightning. We could see forked tongues of bright yellow lightning streaking from the cloud base to the top. While I know that negative electric charge accumulates at the base of the storm, it was a visceral reminder of how true this is to see electricity streaking upwards into the sky.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t help but to stop walking and watch the storms. Their fury, visible from this far west, reminded me that far worse befell the towns in the path of the storms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While storms swept through the Dallas\/Fort Worth Metroplex yesterday, today they created a new and dangerous line far east of the area. On our walk tonight, Jodi and I looked west and saw nothing but clear blue skies. East of us, however, we saw a wall of yellow-gray storm clouds. Their anvil-shaped up-drafts towered 3-4km […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-life","7":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1623,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions\/1623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}