Posted on 03/31/2008 3:07:59 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
How would you like to see this thing bearin down on you?
Not so bad. For a minute I was afraid I was going to see another Helen Thomas picture coming at me...
That’s an awesome picture. Where did you get it from? Any chance of a poster sized copy?
Is it on the left or the right or in the middle?
the funnel cloud runs from top left to the right, the actual funnel on the ground is on the far right..
got it in an e-mail..it is an absolutely awesome picture..
Great shot.
Thank you.
just...wow..
The actual funnel is on the far left next to the tall building with the lighted top.
The photographer should at least get a Pulitizer nomination if not a win.
I stand corrected..the e-mail said it was on the right..
Wow! I went to his website, this photo was $49.98 for an 8” X 12”.
I guess he thinks he prefers exclusivity over profitability. I say thinks, because most people who want something and think it’s overpriced-will steal it.
I would’ve paid that for an 24 X 36 or larger, but for an 8 X 12, I’ll stick with the public version...or wait till I see a bootleg one at the flea market.
Below is the wording that also came with it explaining the photo.
As an EF-2 tornado swept across downtown Atlanta, one local photographer snapped the shot of a lifetime.
Shane Durrance was on top of his condominium off Howell Mill Road when he saw the potential for a great photo of the downtown area. He took the photo just as 11Alive's Paul Ossmann (meteorologist) was talking about tornado warnings in Atlanta.
Durrance, who is an acquaintance of Ossmann's, sent the photo to 11Alive and said he believed he'd missed catching the tornado on film. But after Ossmann reviewed the picture, he assured Durrance that he had indeed gotten the shot.
The picture shows a light-gray vertical strip of what looks like clouds connecting the cityscape to the larger clouds above. That is the actual tornado. Ossmann said it didn't look like the usual sort of funnel cloud because it was embedded in rainshowers at the time of the photograph.
That is a little steep for an 8x12. He also talks about film so it seem he did not use a digital camera.
If he has it on film he should be able to make it larger than 8x12. Any digital camera will produce something much larger than that
The line of sight appears to be SSW toward the city. If that is correct the tornado is in the right place near Cabbagetown.
Agreed.
The photo was taken from the photographer’s Midtown apartment. He was taking pictures of lightening never thinking he would photograph a tornado.
This appears to be the only photograph of the tornado and probably one of the most historic pictures of Atlanta.
Only Sherman did more destruction to Atlanta.
The line of sight is SSW looking toward downtown. The building with the lighted top is near Peachtree Street so the tornado is hitting downtown in the photo. It’s on its way to Cabbagetown.
Amazing and very scarey.
Did you take this pic?
Never mind — quick posters!!!
I spend time in out global offices in Buckhead - the Lenox Building. Hard to imagine a tornando touching down in the city.
Wow. That’s quite a photo.
I was on top of the Peachtree Plaza hotel in the mid ‘70’s when a tornado supposedly hit. The lighting hanging from the ceiling swayed pretty violently. At least they told us it was a tornado.
I just went thru Atlanta Friday. There were still many windows out on Peach Tree Towers.
I just caught a glimpse heading east on I-20 @ 75mph.
Wanted to be sure you saw this.
I was across the street and down a little from the Peachtree Plaza (in the Harris Tower of Peachtree Center) when the tornado blew the roof off the Merchandise Mart and a few windows out of our building (and the scaffolding off the Marriott, which was under construction at the time).
When the moveable shelves in our law library started rolling back and forth on their own, we headed for the basement. I took a chance and took the elevator, on the theory that the central core of the building would probably survive a direct hit, while the emergency staircase (which was on the outside wall) might not. Made it to the bottom and about 20 of us headed for the subway. We met a couple of construction workers who had been pinned to the exterior wall of the Marriott by the wind -- that was the second time I ever saw a black person so pale he looked grey (the first time was my parents' housekeeper when lightning struck the living room).
Nothing much happened, so we amused ourselves by singing "Nearer My God to Thee".
It had to be after 1982, because that's when I went to work for the law firm that was located there. We moved out of that building and up to 999 Peachtree in 1987, so the tornado had to have occurred in that 5 year window.
Or maybe there were TWO!
As it happens, I can walk out the front door of our building and see the worst downtown damage - the Equitable Building has most of its windows missing from the southwest and southeast sides (mostly the southwest). I can also see the GP Building (which lost a few windows) and the Healey Building which was hammered on the west side. I don't have a really good view of the Peachtree Plaza hotel unless I walk up a block (the Equitable bldg is in the way).
First good picture of it that I’ve seen.
Is there a hi-res version of that out there?
Amazing photo - I’m sure it was devastating to see the city in such bad shape
OMG, I would have absolutely died, I'm so afraid of heights. I don't even want to think about whether anyone was in the glass elevators when it went through!!!
Now THAT would have put Six Flags to shame. LOL.
We were listening to accounts of the Miss St. vs. Alabama game (Go Dawgs!) when the stuff hit the fan. State had a 3 point lead with 2 seconds left. 'Bama in-bounded the ball and hit a 3 pointer....miraculous....in that if they had missed, the game would have been over.
People would have run out of the Dome into a sh*tstorm of broken glass and debris.
God is mysterious and subtle....most of the time.
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