Pic of Atlanta tornado

18 years ago

This is the only known photograph of the tornado that hit downtown Atlanta last Friday night. No words, it's just one amazing shot. It was taken by a regular Atlanta resident from his downtown apartment balcony.

Just thought you might enjoy the photo.

Here is a link that might be useful: Atlanta tornado

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glenda_al
18 years ago
Awesome, but so scary looking as well!

Friend, here, told me she and her DH was in the GA dome watching the basketball tournament, when it hit.
gadgets
18 years ago
All I can say is Wow!! And I'll be very happy if I never have to see one in person.

Shirley
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Yikes! I came home and slept a few hours, but the pictures are still just as haunting. What a long night... I was on the phone to sis and my folks from about 2:00 when she first called until after 4:00 -- then had coffee until daylight and went on over there. They live just outside the city limits. The closest damage was to a barn about a mile from them. The emergency management guy was going from place to place as reports came in. We live just southwest of my folks and slept right through the storm. You can bet I'll buy a NOAA storm radio this week! Like them, we wouldn't hear the sirens from town or from the AF base during a storm. We bought the greenhouse about 10 years ago and didn't put it up until 2006. Within six months afterward, my dad had prostate cancer and a broken ankle. Finally he tinkered out there last summer and grew some stuff for them (not to sell), and this year he had tomato, onions, carrots, lettuce and some other stuff growing. He was sidelined most recently with a toe surgery and when he was hospitalized with that staph infection. I'll post a picture of the "salad" that used to sit in the SE corner of the greenhouse. I still can't believe it...and I'm still so thankful that it didn't hit the house! The lettuce crop...the dirt area on the right is where the pipe frame was in the ground.
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liz
18 years ago
WHOA!!! That is an incredible picture Steph!! Thanks for posting it...I feel very lucky that storm decided NOT to come south!!
FlamingO in AR
18 years ago
That's a great photo. I'm glad it wasn't worse, but what a huge mess it left.
secsteve
18 years ago
Great picture. I remember as a kid two very severe tornado's in my hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan. One followed us as we were racing home after picking up my brother from his part time job. It hadn't touched down when we picked him up, but as we got closer to home, it suddenly touched down. We barely made it inside and into the basement when it hit. Dad was just starting down the stairs and it literally pushed him down the stairs. Only damage was a handful of shingles torn off each side of the house and a ruined dining room floor. The tornado had picked up a marble and literally ran it under the linoleum and made a small tunnel.

Second one was the big tornado's that hit MI, IN and OH. As it was moving down the road from us, it split and became two tornado's from one cloud. Destroyed our church as well as a number of orchards. I still have the articles from that one.

Scary going through one.
alisande
18 years ago
Fantastic picture!
grammahony
18 years ago
I saw this picture on the Weather Channel. The reporter said the actual tornado is on the far left of the picture, right behind those two buildings, and to the right of that building with the pointed light on top of it.
Leslie
okwriter
18 years ago
That's an AWESOME photo! Thank you for posting it!
jannie
18 years ago
Wow! I never want to see a tornado myself!

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