Tornados Bomb Atlanta and the State of Georgia
What started out as a typical Friday day in the Peach State would all go horribly wrong before the day was over. Beautiful weather, warm temperatures and Atlanta hosting the SEC college basketball tournament was just a few of the highlights going on in Georgia on March 14th. A typical basketball game being played in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta would come to a crashing halt as the city of Atlanta was being hit with the first tornado ever! It was the first direct hit from a F2 tornado and it caused damage at the Georgia Dome and many of the surrounding landmarks in the heart of Atlanta.
There was one person that said the tornado in Atlanta on Friday Night reminded him of the Olympic Bombing during the 1996 Olympics. It had that same impact and panic in the streets of Atlanta. My home is located 40 miles north of the Atlanta area and I’m not even sure the powerful F2 tornado made one limb move in my area. It was unbelievable at all the destruction that was taking place in Atlanta, while just a few miles up the road nothing was happening.
The amazing part of it all is that nobody lost their life in this powerful twister that stayed on the ground for over 6 miles in the heart of Atlanta. When I say the “heart of Atlanta”, I mean that in every sense and if you had to pick the middle of Atlanta, you would choose the area around Phillips Arena, the CNN Building and Georgia Dome. Mother Nature took a precise hit on Georgia that only a military general could appreciate; that might be trying to land a guided missile to a target.
The residents in our state didn’t have time to lend a hand or feel sympathy for the city of Atlanta, because as soon as the Mayor of Atlanta Shirley Franklin was declaring the city of Atlanta in a state of emergency, the rest of Georgia would take it’s blows on Saturday. Storm after storm came blowing through our state, all of them were moving very fast, but leaving damage behind all the way. The main topic on Saturday March 15th was hail. We had pea size hail, grape size hail, golf ball size hail and even some had baseball size hail falling from the skies. Mother Nature didn’t stop with her attack on Atlanta, but she then sent out the other weapons in her arsenal and began to carpet bomb the state of Georgia with frozen pieces of ice. Georgia has truly been in a war zone over the last two days and it’s finally good to see that the attacks have stopped for now. Lives were lost on Saturday, homes destroyed and the people’s way of living has taken a whole new perspective in the 24 hours of destruction that took place on a March Weekend in the Peach State.
