{"id":337445,"date":"2026-07-12T04:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T04:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/337445\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T04:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T04:05:07","slug":"thunderstorms-knock-out-power-down-trees-across-north-central-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/337445\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderstorms knock out power, down trees across North Central Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">OCALA, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Thunderstorms Saturday knocked out power to thousands of homes across North Central Florida, downed trees and damaged at least one residence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Ocala fire crews spent hours clearing roads following the storms and were still working to restore power to homes near damaged power lines. Crews shared a photo of one home with a large tree branch on its roof.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In Gainesville, downed trees blocked some intersections. 34th Street, near Zion Lutheran Church, was obstructed around 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OCALA, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Thunderstorms Saturday knocked out power to thousands of homes across North Central Florida, downed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,138913,138912,138910,138914,138911],"class_list":["post-337445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-thunderstorm-damage","tag-gainesville-downed-trees","tag-north-central-florida-storm","tag-ocala-fire-rescue-storm-response","tag-ocala-power-outage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}