{"id":4589,"date":"2017-10-09T22:49:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T02:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/?p=4589"},"modified":"2018-05-13T18:43:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T22:43:11","slug":"trying-to-reason-with-hurricane-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/trying-to-reason-with-hurricane-season-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying to Reason With Hurricane Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michelle Meyers
\nIn Motion Staff Writer<\/p>\n

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A group of mangled trees at the end of Kenilworth Drive in Ormond Beach, Florida after a tornado swept through during Hurrcane Irma.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Scott Kelly looked down from the roof top of his egg shell colored house, shirtless, sweat dripping from his chin. He smiled. Luckily, this was one of his rentals and it stood empty when Hurricane Irma struck on Sept. 12. Losing half his roof was a small price to pay in comparison to losing a renter to its deadly winds and rain.<\/p>\n

Irma spawned a tornado that brought devastation to the quiet Ormond Beach neighborhood, inhabited by many retirees. Kelly said it came from the Halifax River, splintered an old tree in half, cruised down Hernandez Avenue and went diagonally across North Ridgewood Avenue.\u00a0 It brought wind speeds estimated at 100 miles per hour. That powerful rotation tore two roofs off entirely, leaving one house marginally inhabitable and the other, totally uninhabitable.<\/p>\n

Kelly\u2019s neighbors, who remained in their damaged home, were emotionally traumatized but physically sound. The twister collided with a transformer directly in front of their house which sent shards of glass into their legs and the man\u2019s scalp. His wife openly cried when recapping the fearful event,while glancing at the piles os debris where her kitchen once stood.<\/p>\n

Scott was extremely thankful for a handkerchief-headed neighbor who volunteered to join him on the sweltering roof. He said most of his family lives in this area, but they were recovering from their own damage.<\/p>\n

He smiled and said they would survive.\u00a0 \u201cAfter all,\u201d he said, \u201cwe are Kelly strong!\u201d<\/p>\n

That was just one of hundreds of stories of survival and neighbors helping neighbors as residents picked up the pieces following the largest storm Florida has seen in recent history.<\/p>\n

For more ‘Hurricane Irma’ see centerspread<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michelle Meyers In Motion Staff Writer Scott Kelly looked down from the roof top of his egg shell colored house, shirtless, sweat dripping from his chin. He smiled. Luckily, this was one of his rentals and it stood empty when Hurricane Irma struck on Sept. 12. Losing half his roof Continue reading Trying to Reason With Hurricane Season<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4590,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions\/4590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}