Where’s the Outrage?

A tornado hit Atlanta last night. I lived in Atlanta in the early 80s while I went to college. I don’t remember much tornado activity. This kind of reminds me of what happened in Fort Worth in 2000. For those of you who don’t remember, a major tornado hit downtown Fort Worth. There was a major property damage but I don’t believe that there was any loss of life.

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From CNN.com:

Waves of severe thunderstorms streaked through downtown Atlanta on Saturday, hours after a tornado left a trail of destruction through the heart of the city.

A swath of uprooted and broken trees, downed utility lines, peeled-off roofs and collapsed brick walls marked the path of the tornado that struck around 9:40 p.m. Friday.

“This was clearly a tornado,” Lans Rothfusz of the National Weather Service’s Peachtree City, Georgia, office said. He rated the storm an EF-2 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, meaning it packed top winds of 130 miles per hour. (more…)

 

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