{"id":22066,"date":"2012-05-25T08:34:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T12:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=22066"},"modified":"2012-05-25T08:40:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T12:40:23","slug":"abaco-hit-by-tornado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/05\/abaco-hit-by-tornado","title":{"rendered":"Abaco Hit By Tornado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9439\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"tornado\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tornado.jpg\" alt=\"tiny tornado\" width=\"210\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tornado.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tornado-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tornado-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/>Director of NEMA, Captain Stephen Russell flew out early this morning to Abaco via a Royal Bahamas Defence Force aircraft to assess the damaged caused by what is being described as a tornado in Murphy Town yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Abaco Administrator Cephas Cooper advised NEMA that a severe weather system passed though that settlement around 3pm Thursday, May 24, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly, three families have been displaced; lost their homes during the passage of that system, which the Met Office had sent out warnings of caution.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, May 24, the Met Department issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Bimini, Grand Bahama, Abaco and adjacent waters.<\/p>\n<p>Some of these thunderstorms have the potential to be severe at times, causing strong gusty winds, dangerous lightning, heavy downpour and possible tornadic activity, the Met Department said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>NEMA will give an update on this activity during its Press Conference scheduled for\u00a0 today at 12 noon.<\/p>\n<p>BY THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director of NEMA, Captain Stephen Russell flew out early this morning to Abaco via a Royal Bahamas Defence Force aircraft to assess the damaged caused by what is being described as a tornado in Murphy Town yesterday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[181,59,122],"class_list":["post-22066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-hurricane","tag-islands","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}