{"id":98881135,"date":"2011-04-28T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T10:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/devastating-tornadoes-tear-through-the-southern-united-states\/"},"modified":"2018-10-08T09:38:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T13:38:31","slug":"devastating-tornadoes-tear-through-the-southern-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/devastating-tornadoes-tear-through-the-southern-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Devastating Tornadoes Tear Through the Southern United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Southern US is reeling after the latest round of severe weather on Wednesday left entire communities devastated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A string of deadly tornadoes left a trail of death and destruction across five states with early estimates putting the death toll near 300.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Officials in some of the hardest hit counties in Alabama and Mississippi have been going door to door looking for survivors amidst the rubble and debris.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee, Georgia, and Virginia were also hit hard although the death toll in those states is expected to be much lower.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Forecasters say an active La Nina pattern is to blame for the increase in tornado activity over the past few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2011\/04\/27\/national\/main20058158.shtml?tag=stack&amp;tag=breakingnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">CBS News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Southern US is reeling after the latest round of severe weather on Wednesday left entire communities devastated. &nbsp; A string of deadly tornadoes left a trail of death and destruction across five states with early estimates putting the death toll near 300. &nbsp; Officials in some of the hardest hit counties in Alabama and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98881135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98881135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98897008,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881135\/revisions\/98897008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98881135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98881135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98881135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}