{"id":4861,"date":"2014-04-22T21:27:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T02:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4861"},"modified":"2014-04-22T21:27:50","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T02:27:50","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-april-22-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4861","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour for April 22, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Fierce Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>About 2:00 p.m. on May 7, 1840, a fierce wind came up from the southwest as a dark cloud approached the riverfront town of Natchez, Mississippi. \u00a0Another cloud formation moved from the opposite direction, and the collision of the two fronts at Natchez apparently unleashed both a tornado and torrential rains, which amounted to nine inches before the storm ended. \u00a0Tornado winds ripped through Natchez, peeling off roofs and crushing whole buildings. \u00a0The air became a swirling mass of shingles, bricks, timbers, and even heavy ox carts, scattering debris from wrecked buildings everywhere. \u00a0Meanwhile, out on the Mississippi River, the tornado tore away the superstructure of one steamboat and capsized another, with great loss of life. \u00a0The Natchez ferry and sixty other flatboats were also sunk. \u00a0In all, the tornado killed 317 people at Natchez, many of them by drowning in the Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #bb0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/006095745X\/theasylumeclecti\">The Pessimist\u2019s Guide To History<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Fierce Yet Truly Morbid Fact! About 2:00 p.m. on May 7, 1840, a fierce wind came up from the southwest as a dark cloud approached the riverfront town of Natchez, Mississippi. \u00a0Another cloud formation moved from the opposite direction, and the collision of the two fronts at Natchez apparently unleashed both a tornado and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4867,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861\/revisions\/4867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}