Posted on 03/14/2008 7:33:38 PM PDT by silentknight
A tornado has been reported in downtown Atlanta...some injuries.
I believe on Channel 2, Empress Monica said it dropped back down in Cabbagetown. I can’t believe FNC preempted Gretta to cover Mayor Franklin getting face-time.
The Chief was just saying that the Fulton Bag & Cotton Mill Lofts ‘pancake collapsed’?
If that’s the case I’d expect to see a fatality or two from this. That is a fairly large residential loft building and with a dozen or so units. Mostly young professionals and such live there. I’ve known ppl who lived there, but not anymore.
Prayers...
When they have reruns, the stations go with a small staff. When they have to go live they often have to call in staff to help with the broadcast. It takes time to get them in from their homes. One of the CNN reporters was called in and he had to leave his car a mile away because of all the debris and then he ran a mile to CNN.
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Sounds like the clean-up has begun at this point, and that the weather looks clear for now at least (more to come tomorrow with a greater chance for severe storms than today). So, I think I’ll stop updating at this point, unless something else comes up.
I hope everyone has a great night. :)
Prayers for all those in Atlanta and surrounding areas, also those with family there. Prayers especially for all those injured. Praise the Lord there weren’t more hurt...
F1s or F2s don’t collapse buildings, unless they are very decrepit.
More likely the twister swirled up 135+ mile winds in a very short timeframe, that’s what they do.
Atlanta got, it seems, pretty lucky. Great news.
If Jim would buy us a news station and make us offical reporters, Frs could be first on site all over the country:’)
Just reported that the SEC tourney is being played at GA Tech Coliseum tomorrow, at least the UGA-UK game will be.
The building was already evacuated before it collapsed, unless I’m wrong. They reported that the news crews were being backed up and that it was in danger of collapse about an hour ago, so I hope there was no-one inside. The FD was on-scene before that.
Perhaps true, but I’ll also bet that many a prayer was said by the Christians inside the CNN center. There are a lot of Christians that work for CNN and the other stations here in Atlanta. I have personally known many devout Christians that work there.
How did a Yankee even find Newnan? Billy Sherman didn’t even find it.
Well, Badgers have been known to be curious. Spartan myself.
LOL... :)
All’s well in John’s Creek although we have some heavy, low-level Fog at the moment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_Bag_and_Cotton_Mill
Current Site
In 1997 Aderhold Properties redeveloped the historic Fulton
Cotton Mill in Atlanta into a mixed-income community of 182 loft apartments.
On Friday, March 14, 2008 around 9:30 pm, a portion of the roof was ripped off the Fulton Cotton Mill by a possible tornado. The building has since partially collapsed in on itself. Atlanta Police have secured the area and evacuated the residents of the building.
Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills
History...
Construction on the Current Site
After receiving financial backing from Cincinnati banker Lewis Seasongood, the company began construction of a new complex of buildings on the south side of the Georgia Railroad line, east of downtown. By 1881 the company had become known as the Fulton Cotton Spinning Company, adding a bag factory to the new site in 1882. By the end of the 1880s the partnership between Jacob Elsas and Isaac May had discontinued. One part of the company evolved into the Elsas, May Paper Company and the other, led by Jacob Elsas and incorporated in 1889, became the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill Company.
Within a few years Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill Company had outgrown the capacity of the existing buildings, resulting in the construction of a second mill on the Atlanta site in 1895, with more than 40,000 spindles. A third mill added 50,000 additional spindles by 1907. In addition, a neighboring village with housing for the mill workers was well established by the turn of the twentieth century. Bag plants in New Orleans and St. Louis were bought during the 1890s, and mills in New York and Dallas began operation in the early years of the twentieth century. Additional plants in Minneapolis and Kansas City were established during and after World War I, and a plant in Denver was added in 1945, at the end of World War II. Expansion of the Atlanta plant also continued throughout the first half of the twentieth century: Offices, two picker buildings, and several warehouses were constructed during these years, and the Jacob Elsas Clinic and Nursery was established in the early 1940s.
Wow... never seen one up close - but I’ve seen a lot of those — and heard WAY too many to count, too.
What claim?
Oh, and I completely agree — I was a little flabbergasted that they didn’t have one...
I was just looking at a file of a tornado over Chicago that happened a while ago earlier tonight, and noticed even the city had tornado sirens. What a coincidence... Just realized that.
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