{"id":10046,"date":"2017-02-11T12:45:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T17:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10046"},"modified":"2017-02-11T16:39:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T21:39:06","slug":"30-killed-in-georgia-tornado-back-in-1921","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/02\/30-killed-in-georgia-tornado-back-in-1921\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 30 killed in Georgia tornado back in 1921"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This Day in History<\/em> posted a story this week on an article published in the Sacramento Bee back on February 11, 1921, describing a terrible tornado which hit the Gardner Settlement near Toomsboro, east of Macon, Georgia on February 10. \u00a0The tornado track was described as five miles long and half a mile wide and it was estimated at an F4 in strength. \u00a0It hit a schoolhouse where 82 children and three teachers were present, launching 28 children into the air. \u00a0Over 30 people died in the storm (some accounts say 31 and others 32). \u00a0You can see the original story at their online archives at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cdnc.ucr.edu\/cgi-bin\/cdnc?a=d&amp;d=SU19210211.2.25\">https:\/\/cdnc.ucr.edu\/cgi-bin\/cdnc?a=d&amp;d=SU19210211.2.25<\/a>. \u00a0More information is available from other news stories at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gendisasters.com\/georgia\/11342\/oconee-gardner-ga-tornado-damage-feb-1921\">https:\/\/www.gendisasters.com\/georgia\/11342\/oconee-gardner-ga-tornado-damage-feb-1921<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2326\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2326\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/tornado-track-tool-from-MCC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2326\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/tornado-track-tool-from-MCC-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/tornado-track-tool-from-MCC-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/tornado-track-tool-from-MCC.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/tornado-track-tool-from-MCC-179x138.jpg 179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Midwestern Regional Climate Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Day in History posted a story this week on an article published in the Sacramento Bee back on February 11, 1921, describing a terrible tornado which hit the Gardner Settlement near Toomsboro, east of Macon, Georgia on February 10. \u00a0The tornado track was described as five miles long and half a mile wide and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-severe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10046"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10052,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10046\/revisions\/10052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}