{"id":140521,"date":"2026-03-17T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/140521\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T10:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T10:00:09","slug":"storm-rips-off-roofs-destroys-porches-in-allentown-tree-falls-on-box-truck-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/140521\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm rips off roofs, destroys porches in Allentown, tree falls on box truck | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; A severe storm caused major damage, closing roads and knocking out power for thousands overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Southside Allentown was one of the hardest hit areas.<\/p>\n<p>69 News caught the video from the area of Poplar and Devonshire streets.<\/p>\n<p>The storm ripped off several roofs and destroyed porches, sending them into people&#8217;s yards.<\/p>\n<p>Debris could be seen littering the streets, and some cars were damaged by falling limbs.<\/p>\n<p>Nearby Fountain Street was closed off as a tree fell on top of a box truck.<\/p>\n<p>In the area of Emmaus Avenue, trees were uprooted and fell onto wires.<\/p>\n<p>Fences and homes had visible damage. A trampoline was even flipped over in someone&#8217;s yard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; A severe storm caused major damage, closing roads and knocking out power for thousands overnight.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,153,155,154,28],"class_list":["post-140521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-allentown","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}