{"id":77707,"date":"2026-08-21T11:55:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/tornadoes-pummel-new-yorks-long-island-and-delaware-capital\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T11:55:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:55:04","slug":"tornadoes-pummel-new-yorks-long-island-and-delaware-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/tornadoes-pummel-new-yorks-long-island-and-delaware-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornadoes pummel New York\u2019s Long Island and Delaware capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First responders also rescued flood-stranded people after storms unleashed heavy rains in the US north-east<\/p>\n<p>Residents in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/delaware\">Delaware<\/a>\u2019s capital and on Long Island, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/new-york\">New York<\/a>, were picking up the pieces on Friday after tornadoes touched down during sudden storms that battered the north-eastern US with heavy rains and left dozens of people stranded in their cars during flash flooding.<\/p>\n<p>In Atlantic Beach on Long Island, the long peninsula that stretches out into the ocean to the east of New York City, images posted on social media showed a large funnel cloud over the water and small buildings torn apart at a beach club.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/21\/tornado-new-york-long-island-delaware\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First responders also rescued flood-stranded people after storms unleashed heavy rains in the US north-east Residents in Delaware\u2019s capital and on Long Island, New York, were picking up the pieces on Friday after tornadoes touched down during sudden storms that battered the north-eastern US with heavy rains and left dozens of people stranded in their &#8230; <a title=\"Tornadoes pummel New York\u2019s Long Island and Delaware capital\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/tornadoes-pummel-new-yorks-long-island-and-delaware-capital\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Tornadoes pummel New York\u2019s Long Island and Delaware capital\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77707","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=77707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}