Monday, March 24, 2008

Follow up


Atlanta EF2 tornado
Originally uploaded by PerryW
The accompanying photo is, as you see, a screen capture from WXIA-TV that someone posted to flickr, enabling me to blog it from there. Photographer credit is Shane Durrance.

Meanwhile, from Atlanta Metblogs, I found a Google Map of the path of the tornado's touchdown through downtown Atlanta. Those of you who know where I live can see that the closest approach was about a half-mile. The old Fulton Cotton Bag Mill (now Stax Lofts) got most of the initial press, but a quick flickr search for "atlanta tornado cabbage town" will show you what they're dealing with there.

This news, fortunately, had nothing to do with me personally. Although there is a connection: One of my wife's coworkers lived at Stax. She's OK, but she got out with little more than her pajamas and a mismatched pair of flip flops.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Man, I don't see how it missed Doug Kaye!

RNB

Daniel said...

Apparently it bounced over his house.

Anonymous said...

He did say the next street over was pretty much demolished.

RNB