{"id":1048,"date":"2012-03-03T20:16:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T01:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/tornado-damage-cat-creek-and-quarterman-road-lowndes-county-georgia-3-march-2012.html"},"modified":"2012-03-03T20:16:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T01:16:45","slug":"tornado-damage-cat-creek-and-quarterman-road-lowndes-county-georgia-3-march-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/tornado-damage-cat-creek-and-quarterman-road-lowndes-county-georgia-3-march-2012.html","title":{"rendered":"Tornado damage, Cat Creek and Quarterman Road, Lowndes County, Georgia, 3 March 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/6950532859\/in\/set-72157629505782749\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7177\/6950532859_4b412880e3_m.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nThere was a twister in Lowndes County today.<br \/>\nThe only property damage we saw was to this house on Cat Creek Road,<br \/>\nwhich now has a pine tree draped across it.<br \/>\nThe house roof appears undamaged.<\/p>\n<p>\nThere are no reports of anyone being hurt.<br \/>\nEveryone is accounted for.<\/p>\n<p>\nThen the tornado came through the woods to Quarterman Road:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/6804367608\/in\/set-72157629505667927\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\"  src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7198\/6804367608_e6294a9936_m.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/6804422630\/in\/set-72157629505782749\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:top;border:none;\" v  src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7069\/6950499471_df2a669dfd_m.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nThe twister broke that tree and flung it down the road.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/W5BMauYgA3E\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/W5BMauYgA3E\/default.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nThe tornado tore down a lot of trees on the south part of Quarterman Road.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/W5BMauYgA3E\"><br \/>\nvideo<\/a> pan:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W5BMauYgA3E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<small><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\nTornado damage, Lowndes County, Georgia, 3 March 2012.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPictures on Cat Creek Road and Quarterman Road<br \/>\nby Gretchen Quarterman and John S. Quarterman<br \/>\n<br \/>\nfor LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.<br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n<p>\nThis canopy tree limb at the SW corner of the road broke completely off:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/6804422630\/in\/set-72157629505782749\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\"  src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7208\/6804422630_1e7082e432.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<small><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\nTornado damage, Lowndes County, Georgia, 3 March 2012.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPictures on Cat Creek Road and Quarterman Road<br \/>\nby Gretchen Quarterman and John S. Quarterman<br \/>\n<br \/>\nfor LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.<br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n<p>\nLet&#8217;s hope the county doesn&#8217;t decide to cut the whole tree down now.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s still a fine old oak tree.<br \/>\nBy old, I mean old-timers a couple of decades ago recalled it as one<br \/>\nof two (the other is on the other side of the road from it)<br \/>\nthat had been there back when that side of Quarterman Road continued<br \/>\nsouth to the river, and along it to Cat Creek Road,<br \/>\nwhich hasn&#8217;t been the case for probably 70 years or more.<\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/\/photos\/98706376@N00\/sets\/72157629505782749\/show\/\"><br \/>\na slideshow.<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<object width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"offsite=true&#038;lang=en-us&#038;page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2F98706376%40N00%2Fsets%2F72157629505782749%2Fshow%2F&#038;page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2F98706376%40N00%2Fsets%2F72157629505782749%2F&#038;set_id=72157629505782749&#038;jump_to=\"><\/param><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/slideshow\/show.swf?v=109615\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/slideshow\/show.swf?v=109615\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"offsite=true&#038;lang=en-us&#038;page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2F98706376%40N00%2Fsets%2F72157629505782749%2Fshow%2F&#038;page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2F98706376%40N00%2Fsets%2F72157629505782749%2F&#038;set_id=72157629505782749&#038;jump_to=\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>\nThe good news: rain! We got rain! We like rain!<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a twister in Lowndes County today. The only property damage we saw was to this house on Cat Creek Road, which now has a pine tree draped across it. The house roof appears undamaged. There are no reports of anyone being hurt. Everyone is accounted for. Then the tornado came through the woods [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557,89],"tags":[2959,8701,10,548,8702,12,7,1721],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colquitt-emc","category-weather","tag-3-march-2012","tag-georgia","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-tornado"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}