{"id":120516,"date":"2021-12-11T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=120516"},"modified":"2021-12-11T15:54:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T20:54:00","slug":"at-least-30-tornadoes-rampaged-through-5-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=120516","title":{"rendered":"\u2018At Least\u2019 30 Tornadoes Rampaged Through 5 States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-120517\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/twister.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/twister.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/twister.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/twister.jpg?resize=444%2C333&amp;ssl=1 444w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/twister.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/twister.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>At minimum 30 tornadoes were reported in Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi and Tennessee.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Over 70 dead as 22 reported tornadoes rip across South, Midwest<br \/>\nKentucky saw its deadliest tornado system ever, the governor said.<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By Emily Shapiro, Max Golembo, Daniel Peck, Mark Osborne, and Meredith Deliso<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A devastating tornado outbreak has killed dozens of people across two states, with Kentucky seeing its deadliest tornado system ever, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>At least 70 people were killed in western Kentucky, and the death toll could exceed 100 people, according to Gov. Andy Beshear.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has been the most devastating tornado event in our state&#8217;s history,&#8221; Beshear said during a Saturday morning press briefing. &#8220;For those that have seen it, what it&#8217;s done here in Graves County and elsewhere, it is indescribable.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas also pledged assistance to people affected by the tornadoes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Heartbreaking devastation and loss of life from tornadoes and severe weather across the Midwest and South,&#8221; he said on Twitter, adding that DHS and FEMA &#8220;stand ready to assist the people of Kentucky, Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri and Tennessee.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/50-dead-tornadoes-devastate-kentucky\/story?id=81672801\">ABC News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mayorkas hasn&#8217;t been a bastion of confidence in what passes as performance in his duties thus far. His Chief of Staff, Karen Olick, has decided to resign her position to &#8220;pursue new opportunities&#8221; due to his mishandling of the self-inflicted disaster on our southern border. <\/p>\n<p>I sincerely hope he gets this one right, just as I&#8217;m sure no one is waiting for his descisions.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At minimum 30 tornadoes were reported in Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi and Tennessee. Over 70 dead as 22 reported tornadoes rip across South, Midwest Kentucky saw its deadliest tornado system ever, the governor said. By Emily Shapiro, Max Golembo, Daniel Peck, Mark Osborne, and Meredith Deliso A devastating tornado outbreak has killed dozens of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,286],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-search-and-rescue-navy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-vlO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}