{"id":72122,"date":"2026-04-19T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/tornadoes-and-heavy-winds-destroy-homes-and-roads-across-us-midwest\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T09:00:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T14:00:55","slug":"tornadoes-and-heavy-winds-destroy-homes-and-roads-across-us-midwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/tornadoes-and-heavy-winds-destroy-homes-and-roads-across-us-midwest\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornadoes and heavy winds destroy homes and roads across US midwest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No deaths reported after latest round of severe weather in the region as officials brace residents for long recovery <\/p>\n<p>A trail of damaged homes and buildings dotted a wide swath of the US on Saturday after a burst of destructive winds and reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/tornadoes\">tornadoes<\/a> tore off roofs, uprooted trees and rendered rural roads impassable with debris.<\/p>\n<p>No deaths were reported after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/17\/us-midwestern-states-severe-thunderstorms-warning\">Friday\u2019s storms<\/a>, which barreled through the upper midwest and delivered the latest round of severe weather to batter the region. Officials braced residents for a long recovery in some rural communities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/19\/tornadoes-heavy-winds-damage-midwest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No deaths reported after latest round of severe weather in the region as officials brace residents for long recovery A trail of damaged homes and buildings dotted a wide swath of the US on Saturday after a burst of destructive winds and reported tornadoes tore off roofs, uprooted trees and rendered rural roads impassable with &#8230; <a title=\"Tornadoes and heavy winds destroy homes and roads across US midwest\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/tornadoes-and-heavy-winds-destroy-homes-and-roads-across-us-midwest\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Tornadoes and heavy winds destroy homes and roads across US midwest\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}