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Tornado Hits Atlanta
Atlanta Journal and Constitution ^

Posted on 03/14/2008 7:33:38 PM PDT by silentknight

A tornado has been reported in downtown Atlanta...some injuries.


TOPICS: Breaking News; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: atlanta; tornado; weather; yikes
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To: silentknight

Wow. I stayed in downtown last week and I thought we were going to get hit then.


21 posted on 03/14/2008 7:45:25 PM PDT by sigSEGV
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To: Army Air Corps

Whitey’s chickens don’t roost in d’town Atlanta.
I’m on the north side of town about ten miles from the Georgia Dome. Lots of lightning, high winds, guess about 50 mph or so. We are in tornado season here. It lasts until about the end of April.
In the middle of the storm, I thought I heard a tornado, but it was a train.


22 posted on 03/14/2008 7:45:29 PM PDT by BIV
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To: Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)

And some dry white toast.

23 posted on 03/14/2008 7:46:12 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: penelopesire

Yes.. Phone doesn’t work, but.. we got a text message from him. They’re in the Upper Deck, so.. they were close to where the noise was!


24 posted on 03/14/2008 7:46:54 PM PDT by SomeCallMeTim
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To: silentknight

Noone was hurt, but a pipe ripped through the roof of the Georgia Dome.


25 posted on 03/14/2008 7:47:49 PM PDT by Southerngl
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To: Army Air Corps

Scared yes... injured, no!

Thanks... Now, if Kentucky wins, all will be fine! :-)


26 posted on 03/14/2008 7:48:07 PM PDT by SomeCallMeTim
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

GA FReeper here...storm passed over us before hitting Fulton County....

all good here..

thanks for your concern....

prayers up for all those in harms way..


27 posted on 03/14/2008 7:48:32 PM PDT by eeevil conservative (Question, do research.......and do more research.....)
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To: BIV

Only 50mph winds? Not bad. But then, I live in an area where wind storms are common in the spring and 50mph is considered “breezy.”

Are you getting any rain out of all this wind and lightning? If so, please send some to us.


28 posted on 03/14/2008 7:48:35 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: SomeCallMeTim

Thank God! I can just imagine what you were going through until you heard from him!


29 posted on 03/14/2008 7:48:59 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: Army Air Corps

One hit while I was working in 1989. I remember sitting at my desk with a glass front office. I saw the restaurant sign from down the street fly by and I heard the window creaking. Just as I ducked down under the desk, the huge window imploded. That was the closest I ever came to being so scared I almost wet myself.


30 posted on 03/14/2008 7:49:01 PM PDT by Southerngl
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To: silentknight

Oh wow, they ARE confirming injuries? I just watched the local here and they said nothing.


31 posted on 03/14/2008 7:49:39 PM PDT by Southerngl
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To: eeevil conservative
Glad to hear FReeper FRiend. PRayers UP for compatriots.
32 posted on 03/14/2008 7:49:56 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Senator McCain, what did GWB promise you back in 2000? And you believed him? BWAHAAAAA!)
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To: BIV
Whitey’s chickens don’t roost in d’town Atlanta.

Rev. Wright is not concerned with picky little details like that. This was obviously the fault of Whitey somehow.
33 posted on 03/14/2008 7:50:19 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: silentknight

Keep us posted. Nothing on the national media yet. You would think that CNN would be covering it from their own stupid headquarters in downtown Atlanta!


34 posted on 03/14/2008 7:50:30 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: silentknight

Watching The Weather Channel - another cell hitting Atlanta now.


35 posted on 03/14/2008 7:50:44 PM PDT by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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To: Southerngl

LIVE Atlanta fire department transmissions and they have major structural damage in the city. They are preapring to do searches of collapsed buildings. They are now talking about a major collapse of a 5th floor of a building onto the 4th floor.


36 posted on 03/14/2008 7:51:04 PM PDT by silentknight
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To: penelopesire

Well..... we were watching it all on TV... so, We were pretty sure he was OK.... Just freak to be watching it in real time...

Could have been much worse. But, I think he was in the safest place...


37 posted on 03/14/2008 7:51:41 PM PDT by SomeCallMeTim
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To: peggybac

what counties?

did they say?

kids watching movie...don’t want to alarm them if I don’t have to


38 posted on 03/14/2008 7:52:19 PM PDT by eeevil conservative (Question, do research.......and do more research.....)
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To: penelopesire

Weather channel now reporting the cell. May hit just south of downtown but looks almost as bad as the first one to hit Atlanta. Stay safe people.


39 posted on 03/14/2008 7:52:24 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: silentknight

The CNN building was apparently badly damaged.


40 posted on 03/14/2008 7:52:49 PM PDT by Strategerist
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