{"id":1036,"date":"2008-06-30T08:43:11","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T13:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:37:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:37:32","slug":"heavy-hearts-in-huntsville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1036","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Hearts in Huntsville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are heavy hearts in Huntsville this morning after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/huntsvilletimes\/index.ssf?\/base\/news\/1214817330135160.xml&#038;coll=1\">strong winds from a sudden microburst hit the air show at Huntsville International Airport yesterday afternoon.<\/a> The 48 mph winds uprooted several large tents, sending large pieces of debri flying about and injuring 12.<\/p>\n<p>Tragically, 5-year-old Aaron Josiah Miller of Athens was killed when one of the 5000 lb air conditioning units used to cool the tents fell on him.<\/p>\n<p>Police and emergency personnel responded with distinction and the utmost skill, as did the staff at Huntsville Hospital. Still, there is sorrow-too-great-to-bear-alone for the family of Aaron and the thousands who witnessed this horribly tragic event.<\/p>\n<p>Your prayers and thoughts sent our way would be greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE #1: Mayor Loretta Spencer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/huntsvilletimes\/index.ssf?\/base\/news\/1214817322135160.xml&#038;coll=1\">speaks for all of us<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE #2: I was wondering <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.al.com\/breaking\/2008\/06\/microburst_winds_can_exceed_10.html\">the same thing<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--6697bde4b61623876ee66a8c36b1e16b-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--6697bde4b61623876ee66a8c36b1e16b-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--6697bde4b61623876ee66a8c36b1e16b--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are heavy hearts in Huntsville this morning after strong winds from a sudden microburst hit the air show at Huntsville International Airport yesterday afternoon. The 48 mph winds uprooted several large tents, sending large pieces&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-huntsville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9383,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions\/9383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}