This storm partially flattened a loft complex close to mine in Atlanta. According to Google maps, I like 2.7 miles from CNN center and .9 miles from the Cotton Mill Lofts that were ker-plonked. Alot of buildings in that part of town (called Cabbagetown) were destroyed or damaged by the storm. (http://projects.ajc.com/gallery/view/metro/atlanta/stormaerial0315/)
The storm also sucked the glass windows out of alot of the taller buildings in that part of town, exposing their insides to the wind and rain and sucking office stuffs outta the building. A company I use to work for just got the entire penthouse level of the Equitable building in downtown that was one of the ones hit. I don't know if their offices got trashed by the storm or not. I was sitting at home when the tornadoes hit. My sliding glass patio door was open and the power had gone out already. I was hanging out on the sofa enjoying the sounds of the hard rain outside and chatting with a friend who'd come over for dinner that night. At one point a VERY hard wind blew into the room for about 20 seconds, throwing the vertical blinds all over the place. We sat up and took notice but chalked it up to a random wind gust. We didn't hear any warning and didn't have any idea a tornado had hit till both of our phones started ringing with our family members calling to check on us. I was just like "Huh? Why wouldn't I be okay?" After finding out what had happened I put two and two together and got out a wind-up radio I have had for years. We sat there and listened to the news reports till the winding action ran out. The power didn't come back on till 9AM. The stuff in my fridge survived the 9 hour power loss (I think). Sniff testing continues.... -Cameron Dana wrote: > This just strikes me as surreal... that's a huge building right in the > middle of downtown... > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:256564 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
