[TheThinkTank] Atlanta tornado

[Mark Rehder]

On 18-Mar-08, at 2:00 PM, Jay Varner wrote:

> We're all fine and lucky. Thanks for asking. Our shop and most of
> volunteers live in the areas that were hit the hardest. Fortunately,
> no lives were lost in Atlanta. However, many of our neighbors lost
> their homes. We didn't open on Saturday, the day after, because
> everything was a mess, we didn't have power and the forecast showed
> another wave of bad nasty storms. We were back open on Sunday and I
> heard it was rather busy and very awesome.
>
> In solidarity,
> Jay
> Sopo-Bikes
> www.sopobikes.org


Good to hear.  I read this online:

"As they sort through the damage, several things mark this as an  
extraordinary storm.  Maybe not a huge one, but:  an EF-2 tornado,  
reportedly on the ground for up to six miles, tore through a city  
center.  It passed over two arenas with a combined 30 to 40 thousand  
people inside, then over office buildings, restaurants, hotels, and  
neighborhoods.  No one died."

That is indeed extraordinary.

Mark Rehder
http://re-cycles.ca