{"id":252,"date":"2008-04-12T11:02:03","date_gmt":"2008-04-12T17:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=252"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:04:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:04:09","slug":"the-big-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2008\/04\/the-big-storms\/","title":{"rendered":"the big storm(s)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weather channel online referred to the current series of storms as &#8220;the big storm&#8221;.  It has been pretty wild in some places.  So far here, a lot of wind, periods of heavy rain, a bit of thunder and lightning, but the clouds have been spectacular and provided for a dramatic sunset Friday evening when the first front had passed.<\/p>\n<p>We took a walk in the calm AFTER the [first] storm&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Apr08\/WeatherOHRJRoad450436.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Walking on the road\" height=\"436\" style=\"width: 450px; height: 436px\" title=\"Walking on the road\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Apr08\/WeatherOHDepartingFront500375.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Departing Storm\" height=\"375\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 375px\" title=\"Departing Storm\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The cloud line in the departing front was lit in soft pastels by the setting sun.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Apr08\/WeatherOHWindmillFieldDistant500347.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"OH Fields\" height=\"347\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 347px\" title=\"OH Fields\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Apr08\/WeatherOHWindmillFieldClose500463.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"OH Fields\" height=\"463\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 463px\" title=\"OH Fields\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The fields and grass looked 10 times greener after the rain in the early evening light.  This part of Ohio is wheat-corn-soybean rotation.  The fields that are green now are wheat &#8211; planted last fall.  <\/p>\n<p>And the grand finale &#8211; a fiery sunset&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Apr08\/WeatherOHSunsetTrees500375.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Sunset\" height=\"375\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 375px\" title=\"Sunset\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Apr08\/WeatherOHSunsetTree500375.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Sunset\" height=\"375\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 375px\" title=\"Sunset\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Apr08\/WeatherOHSunsetDistant500375.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Sunset\" height=\"375\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 375px\" title=\"Sunset\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weather channel online referred to the current series of storms as &#8220;the big storm&#8221;. It has been pretty wild in some places. So far here, a lot of wind, periods of heavy rain, a bit of thunder and lightning, but the clouds have been spectacular and provided for a dramatic sunset Friday evening when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22139,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/22139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}