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Turn on CNN.
There was an SEC basketball game last night at the time of the tornado. 
I think the video goes to show the strength of the GA Dome.  The state 
insurance commissioner says the World Congress Center is worse than the 
Dome, and of course, the older surrounding neighborhoods like 
Cabbagetown are hard hit, as is the area around the King center and the 
Tabernacle.  The torches at Centennial Park, the Olympic torches, are 
down.  This was not a severe tornado, but unusual in that so much damage 
was done in the inner city.  There is footage of water cascading down a 
staircase INSIDE the Omni-CNN center from a ruptured water line...kind 
of interesting looking considering Atlanta is the city of fountains. 
Anyway, the aerial footage of the damage is rather impressive.
Gotta get off the computer now, as the leading edge of that line of 
storms has arrived..I'll get back on in a few hours...

Bev

clhw wrote:
> Bev -- I had not heard about the tornado until I read what you wrote.
> I've looked at a couple of stories linked to drudgereport.com.
> The main damage that they talk about is almost where I used to work at the
> Carniegie Library downtown. I don't really know where the CNN building is,
> but I think it would be almost within sight of the Library.
>
> We lived for 13 years about 3 or 4 blocks from Piedmont Park, on a small
> street off Amsterdam Avenue. I graduated from Grady High School, which is
> across the street from Piedmont Park. Husband graduated from Georgia Tech,
> off 10th Avenue. This is all familiar territory to me and I remembed some
> rip-snortin' storms, but no threat of tornado. Of course, that was in the
> days before weather radios. There were air raid and alarm sirens on many of
> the major buildings, including the fire department about a block from our
> house and on the 3rd story of my high school building and on the elementary
> school between our house and the high school.
>
> When those alarms went off, it was enough to raise the hair on the back of
> your neck. All we have here, in rural South Carolina, is a siren at the
> volunteer fire department. It sounds to call the fire men to a problem. If
> the wind is howling, like it was last night and again this morning, it is
> hard to hear at our home about 3 miles away.
>
> We had a severe thunderstorm this morning which had lightning popping
> around us. Lots of rain. One of our roosters looks like a drowned rat. I'm
> surprised because the hens and guineas were all nice and dry. Our two mares
> rode out the storm standing on the edge of a line of trees. We had one
> stallion killed several years back, presumeably by lightning hitting the
> tree he was standing under.
>
> A gift from a son years ago was a weather radio with an alarm feature. We
> have it positioned to be able to wake us at night. Although I'm signed up
> to get the computer warnings, by the time nearby storms are in the
> warnings, the computer is unplugged and we are preparing to head to the
> basement.
>
> Last I listened to the daily report, we are about 2 inches deficit for rain
> in 2008, but ahead of the norm for the month of March. Maybe the drought
> will be broken this year.
> Lynn
>
> > It's tornado season in the South, as last night's tornado in
> > downtown Atlanta supports.
> >
> > Bev
> > --
>
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