{"id":3822,"date":"2019-10-19T12:10:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T16:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=3822"},"modified":"2019-10-19T12:21:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T16:21:04","slug":"tornado-hits-lakeland-damages-property-and-tears-off-75-of-kathleen-middle-schools-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2019\/10\/19\/tornado-hits-lakeland-damages-property-and-tears-off-75-of-kathleen-middle-schools-roof\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado Hits Lakeland, Damages Property and Tears off 75% of Kathleen Middle Schools Roof"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/auctual-tornado.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3823\" width=\"335\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/auctual-tornado.jpg 695w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/auctual-tornado-217x300.jpg 217w\" \/><figcaption>Photos of Tornado by  <br> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EliteLandManagement\">Elite Land Management Inc<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EliteLandManagement\"> <\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tornado touched down between Lakeland Linder Airport and Kathleen as severe weather knocked out power to nearly 10,000 homes and businesses; that number was down to 8,657 by 9 a.m., according to Lakeland Electric\u2019s email. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/motor-home-on-boat.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3824\" data-link=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?attachment_id=3824\" class=\"wp-image-3824\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/motor-home-on-boat.jpg 960w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/motor-home-on-boat-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/motor-home-on-boat-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption>Motor Home ontop of boat and house <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"466\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kathleen-middle-school.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3825\" data-link=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?attachment_id=3825\" class=\"wp-image-3825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kathleen-middle-school.jpg 960w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kathleen-middle-school-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kathleen-middle-school-768x373.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption>Kathleen Middle School <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lakeland Electric estimates power will be restored to most customers today, but some of the more damaged areas will be restored tomorrow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The weather conditions are a result of Tropical Storm Nestor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The PCSO has reported that the following roads in northwest\nPolk are closed or experiencing restricted traffic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New Tampa Hwy\/Hibiscus Pkwy E.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clark Rd\/New Tampa Hwy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Walker Rd\/Swindell Rd<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bella Vista St W\/Galloway Rd N<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bella Vista St W\/Sutton Rd<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Swindell Rd east of Kirkland<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Publix Rd\/Mt. Tabor Rd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tornado touched down between Lakeland Linder Airport and Kathleen as severe weather knocked out power to nearly 10,000 homes and businesses; that number was down to 8,657 by 9 a.m.,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}