{"id":1486540,"date":"2026-03-07T22:19:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T04:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1486540"},"modified":"2026-03-10T07:58:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:58:54","slug":"storm-damage-outages-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1486540","title":{"rendered":"Damage, outages from storms, tornado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/03\/2026-03-07_221737-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1486541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/03\/2026-03-07_221737-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/03\/2026-03-07_221737-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/03\/2026-03-07_221737.jpg 359w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>EAST TEXAS \u2014 An overnight storm brought damage and fallen trees to the area on Saturday and electric company crews are working to restore power to customers. <\/p>\n<p>At least two people were injured after a tornado that swept through parts of Marion County early Saturday, according to the National Weather Service. The tornado touched down in the northern portion of the county, from around Berea Way to the latter part of Hall Road. At one property, the storm ripped the roof off a century-old home and shifted the structure off its foundation. <\/p>\n<p>A seven-day disaster declaration is in effect for the county because of injuries and damage.<\/p>\n<p>The Upshur Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation shared pictures of fallen trees and damaged power lines in the Hall area on social media. The cooperative encourages customers experiencing service issues or power outages to report it through the SmartHub app or by calling 903-680-2100.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST TEXAS \u2014 An overnight storm brought damage and fallen trees to the area on Saturday and electric company crews are working to restore power to customers. At least two people were injured after a tornado that swept through parts of Marion County early Saturday, according to the National Weather Service. The tornado touched down &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1486540\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Damage, outages from storms, tornado<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1486879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/03\/2026-03-07_221737-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1486540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 22:24:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/03\/2026-03-07_221737-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1486540"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1486966,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486540\/revisions\/1486966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1486879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1486540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1486540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1486540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}