{"id":3080,"date":"2010-11-06T08:25:23","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T14:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=3080"},"modified":"2010-11-06T09:31:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T15:31:00","slug":"surveillance-video-shows-trailers-being-overturned-by-tornado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/natural-disasters\/surveillance-video-shows-trailers-being-overturned-by-tornado\/","title":{"rendered":"Surveillance video shows trailers being overturned by tornado"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Crews pick up debris from Chickamauga Creek Oct. 27, 2010. (USACE\/ Richard Scott)\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_qM6V6-HRzM0\/TNVzvk509wI\/AAAAAAAAD6g\/gXvZJdE6Ge0\/s288\/tn-tornadeo.jpg\" alt=\"Crews pick up debris from Chickamauga Creek Oct. 27, 2010. (USACE\/ Richard Scott)\" width=\"288\" height=\"215\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crews pick up debris from Chickamauga Creek Oct. 27, 2010. (USACE\/ Richard Scott)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An extraordinary <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/natural-disasters-in-national\/storms-from-mississippi-to-the-great-lakes-to-north-dakota-wreak-havoc\">severe weather outbreak on Tuesday, October 26th<\/a> brought Mother Nature&#8217;s fury to a large part of the nation stretching from Mississippi to Michigan. \u00a0Of the dozens of tornadoes reported that day, one ripped through Chickamauga Lock near Chattanooga, Tennessee and was captured on surveillance video.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Watch the amazing video below<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The twister ripped through an area near Chickamauga Dam Tuesday evening where the Army Corps of Engineers is constructing the lock.\u00a0 No injuries to the employees working at the sight were reported but the Corps said some barely escaped.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The video, captured by a surveillance camera, initially gives no indication of the destruction that is about to come as conditions appear calm and vehicles are seen driving on a nearby road.\u00a0 40 seconds into the video the winds and rain begin to pick up and 10 seconds later two construction trailers are flipped over and reduced to rubble.<\/p>\n<p>Wayne Huddleston, project manager at Chickamauga Lock, said \u201cThe Corps is relocating personnel to other buildings on site and repairs and cleanup are ongoing.\u00a0 We are extremely pleased that no people were hurt and that operations were not seriously affected by the storm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The video clearly shows why mobile homes and other structures without permanent foundations are never a safe place to take cover during severe weather.\u00a0 Residents should always seek sturdier shelter in a permanent structure.<\/p>\n<p>For all the latest on all types of natural disasters, be sure to check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/disasters.exweather.com\">Natural Disasters Examiner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZLO3k9AaQG8?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZLO3k9AaQG8?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An extraordinary severe weather outbreak on Tuesday, October 26th brought Mother Nature&#8217;s fury to a large part of the nation stretching from Mississippi to Michigan. \u00a0Of the dozens of tornadoes reported that day, one ripped through Chickamauga Lock near Chattanooga, Tennessee and was captured on surveillance video. Watch the amazing video below The twister ripped &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/natural-disasters\/surveillance-video-shows-trailers-being-overturned-by-tornado\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Surveillance video shows trailers being overturned by tornado<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[391,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3082,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080\/revisions\/3082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}