{"id":14661,"date":"2013-06-13T08:42:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T13:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=14661"},"modified":"2013-06-14T13:38:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T18:38:28","slug":"oklahomas-building-codes-dont-factor-for-tornados","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/06\/13\/oklahomas-building-codes-dont-factor-for-tornados\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma&#8217;s Building Codes Don&#8217;t Factor for Tornadoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14662\"  class=\"wp-caption module image center\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Tim Marshall, a metrologist and civil engineer, stands near a water tank in a tornado-ravaged Moore neighborhood. The tank fell from the sky after being carried a half-mile, Marshall says.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/06\/timothy-marshall.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14662\" title=\"Tim Marshall\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/06\/timothy-marshall-620x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/06\/timothy-marshall-620x413.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/06\/timothy-marshall-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/06\/timothy-marshall-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/06\/timothy-marshall-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/06\/timothy-marshall-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/06\/timothy-marshall-1620x1080.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Joe Wertz \/ StateImpact Oklahoma<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Marshall, a meteorologist and civil engineer, stands near a water tank in a tornado-ravaged Moore neighborhood. The tank fell from the sky after being carried a half-mile, Marshall says.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>The \u201cOklahoma Standard\u201d is a phrase that describes how this state responds in the immediate aftermath of a disaster, like the tornado that ripped through Moore on May 20.<\/p><p>But that resiliency isn&#8217;t reflected in Oklahoma&#8217;s construction standards, which don&#8217;t factor for tornadoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cOklahoma Standard\u201d is a phrase that describes how this state responds in the immediate aftermath of a disaster, like the tornado that ripped through Moore on May 20.But that resiliency isn&#8217;t reflected in Oklahoma&#8217;s construction standards, which don&#8217;t factor for tornadoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":14662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[492],"tags":[543,24,539],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14714,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14661\/revisions\/14714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}