You’re welcome. I’m glad you are OK.
I was really surprised to hear that Atlanta didn’t have any air raid/tornado sirens. I hope they correct that ASAP. It would be a real shame to have loss of life due to not having one. Perhaps the City Gov’t should take this as a warning and purchase a few if they haven’t already this morning (I know they don’t work that fast, do they?).
We were watching the game and it happened. Then we flipped over to the Weather Channel and CNN to see what the deal was since they are both in Atlanta aren’t they. TWC mentioned it, but I didn’t see it on CNN. Anderson Cooper was on.
Hey - just wanted to say thanks for pulling all that info together last night and today! Excellent reporting for an out of towner ;p For a while I thought you lived here!
Atlanta does actually have sirens. I work downtown about 6 blocks from CNN/Dome and have heard the sirens go off before.
The problem is that I believe nobody had any idea that this thing was forming. We had T-storm warnings in effect at the time, but not even a Tornado watch was active anywhere in the metro area. It literally came out of nowhere. They probably didn’t have time to sound the sirens.
Anyway, we are literally picking up the pieces here today. Everyone I know is okay, but a couple of friends reported some damage to me today. I am on-call for work, and so far nobody’s reported damage to the Bldg I work in, nor the bldg where all of our IT hardware is kept (both 6 blocks from where most of the damage is.) One of my company’s buildings was one of the *most* damaged bldg in town though (we have 3 bldgs downtown).